25/04/2017

:00:12. > :00:13.Hello it's Tuesday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:00:14. > :00:22.21-year-old James Casling moved so many of you to tears last month

:00:23. > :00:25.as he described how football saved his life.

:00:26. > :00:32.He plays for QPRs mental health team and this morning we've taken him

:00:33. > :00:47.to train and meet with some of their first team players.

:00:48. > :00:50.Do say tuned for that - and keen to hear your

:00:51. > :00:54.Did you find something - or someone - in life which helped

:00:55. > :01:03.Also on the programme - the American state of Arkansas has

:01:04. > :01:05.killed two convicted murderers by lethal injection,

:01:06. > :01:07.the first double execution on the same day in the US

:01:08. > :01:39.And Sir Elton John is recovering from a bacterial infection

:01:40. > :01:41.- he spent two nights in intensive care.

:01:42. > :02:02.Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11.

:02:03. > :02:06.Throughout the morning - we ll bring you the latest breaking news -

:02:07. > :02:09.and at 10 o clock we'll hear from Labour who're setting

:02:10. > :02:12.out their Brexit policy...and a little later we'll talk

:02:13. > :02:15.As always - really keen to hear from you -

:02:16. > :02:19.do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning -

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:02:25. > :02:28.Labour is to set out its policy on Brexit, saying that the party

:02:29. > :02:31.would guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK on day

:02:32. > :02:36.Sir Keir Starmer, the Shadow Brexit Secretary,

:02:37. > :02:39.will also say retaining the benefits of the single market would become

:02:40. > :02:44.He'll stress that Labour wouldn't accept negotiations

:02:45. > :02:46.ending without a deal, and will promise to give

:02:47. > :02:49.Parliament a meaningful vote on the final agreement.

:02:50. > :02:53.Here's our Political Correspondent, Eleanor Garnier.

:02:54. > :03:12.When it came to a vote, Labour supported legislation giving

:03:13. > :03:15.Theresa May the power to trigger the start of negotiations

:03:16. > :03:18.But so far, Labour has struggled to present its own

:03:19. > :03:21.Now the party's Shadow Brexit Secretary will attempt

:03:22. > :03:25.Sir Keir Starmer will say today a Labour government

:03:26. > :03:28.would unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK

:03:29. > :03:37.And Sir Keir will also promised to prioritise

:03:38. > :03:40.the economy in negotiations, aiming to keep the benefits

:03:41. > :03:54.of the single market and the customs union.

:03:55. > :03:56.He will say that Labour will reject the Conservatives' repeal bill

:03:57. > :03:59.and bring in new legislation to transfer relevant EU laws

:04:00. > :04:01.to Britain, to protect employment and consumer rights

:04:02. > :04:02.as well as environmental regulations.

:04:03. > :04:04.When it comes to negotiating with other EU leaders,

:04:05. > :04:06.a Labour government, Sir Keir Starmer will say,

:04:07. > :04:20.will build a close relationship with the European Union,

:04:21. > :04:24.But out campaigning later today, Theresa May will again stress leave

:04:25. > :04:28.the country through Brexit to see the country through Brexit

:04:29. > :04:32.Our Political Guru Norman Smith is in Westminster for us this morning.

:04:33. > :04:38.What other differences between Labour and the Conservatives and

:04:39. > :04:44.Brexit? It's a massive day for Brexit? It's a massive day for

:04:45. > :04:47.Labour because they have taken such an unclear position, people are not

:04:48. > :04:52.sure if they are forward or against it. It is not just their critics who

:04:53. > :04:55.say that, some of their top people say it, Tony Blair said at the

:04:56. > :05:02.weekend that he did not understand the party's position this is what

:05:03. > :05:03.Peter Mandelson said last night when he was asked if he understood the

:05:04. > :05:06.party 's position on Brexit. I think you need to wait

:05:07. > :05:09.for the manifesto. The problem for the Labour

:05:10. > :05:11.Party in this election on Brexit is very clear,

:05:12. > :05:14.and that is that they are not, I'm afraid, differentiating

:05:15. > :05:16.their position and their policies sufficiently from the Government,

:05:17. > :05:19.and haven't done so up until now, which they needed to do

:05:20. > :05:22.if they were going to offer But I hope that that

:05:23. > :05:36.will come out in the wash. I hope in the coming days and weeks,

:05:37. > :05:39.we will see a clearer, rather more robust approach

:05:40. > :05:42.from the Labour Party on this, because Labour Party supporters

:05:43. > :05:43.and voters and members right across the country are looking

:05:44. > :05:45.for leadership on Brexit, rather than an equivocal,

:05:46. > :06:03.rather more fence-sitting position Labour are trying to get off the

:06:04. > :06:07.fence, they say that they accept Brexit, they do want to guarantee

:06:08. > :06:10.the rights of EU International is to remain pure from day one and they

:06:11. > :06:17.want to take away this idea of walking away from the table without

:06:18. > :06:20.a deal. But in terms of what they might negotiate, the Labour Party

:06:21. > :06:25.Brexit package, it is still a bit vague. They say they want to retain

:06:26. > :06:29.but that could mean all sorts of but that could mean all sorts of

:06:30. > :06:33.things and significantly they don't mention immigration or freedom of

:06:34. > :06:38.movement or the role of the European Court of Justice. What they seem to

:06:39. > :06:42.be doing is changing the tone of the negotiations in the hope that they

:06:43. > :06:47.will at least be able to cut a better deal. At least that is what

:06:48. > :06:52.they're Brexit spokesman said Keir Starmer said on the radio today. You

:06:53. > :06:56.have to accept the referendum result, I passionately campaigned to

:06:57. > :06:59.stay, I wanted us to stay in and I to run the country campaigning for

:07:00. > :07:03.us to remain but we lost the referendums are we need to shape the

:07:04. > :07:12.future and identify what sort of UK we want in Europe. And what the

:07:13. > :07:14.Labour Party says is that we want want to negotiate a relationship of

:07:15. > :07:18.our EU partners which is based on collaboration and collaboration. But

:07:19. > :07:26.here is the rub. Theresa May is a pretty clear position on Brexit

:07:27. > :07:30.which is No to the single market, No to freedom of movement, No to the

:07:31. > :07:35.European Court of Justice. The Labour stance is more complicated.

:07:36. > :07:41.In the heat and fury of an election campaign, will that message cut

:07:42. > :07:47.through? We will see. Let us know what you think of the Brexit policy

:07:48. > :07:51.from Labour. We will be hearing from Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir

:07:52. > :07:57.Starmer as he gives his speech live at 10am today so have a watch and

:07:58. > :08:00.let us know what you think. I am sure you can do nuanced!

:08:01. > :08:02.Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:08:03. > :08:06.Two convicted murderers have been executed in the American

:08:07. > :08:08.state of Arkansas - the first double execution

:08:09. > :08:12.Jack Jones and Marcel Williams were among eight inmates scheduled

:08:13. > :08:14.to be put to death over the course of 11 days.

:08:15. > :08:16.The timetable was determined by the imminent expiry date

:08:17. > :08:19.of the state's supplies of one of the three drugs required

:08:20. > :08:26.The French anti-EU anti-immigration presidential candidate Marine Le Pen

:08:27. > :08:29.is to step down as leader of the French National Front party

:08:30. > :08:36.The move comes just a day after she reached the second

:08:37. > :08:38.round of the French election, where she will face

:08:39. > :08:44.She told French TV that she needed to be above party politics.

:08:45. > :08:47.Sir Elton John has cancelled a series of shows in America

:08:48. > :08:50.after falling ill with what's been described as a "potentially deadly

:08:51. > :08:59.The singer, who's 70, spent 2 nights in intensive care

:09:00. > :09:01.after contracting the illness while on tour in Chile

:09:02. > :09:04.He's now out of hospital and recovering at home,

:09:05. > :09:12.Ever the showman, Sir Elton John has instead been in the hands of doctors

:09:13. > :09:14.over the last fortnight, having been taken seriously ill.

:09:15. > :09:17.He was on his way back from Chile when he was struck down

:09:18. > :09:20.by what his medical team quickly identified as a rare and potentially

:09:21. > :09:29.He was admitted to hospital in the UK, where he spent two

:09:30. > :09:33.Sir Elton, who's 70, wasn't able to go home for some time,

:09:34. > :09:38.but it's emerged he was discharged a few days ago.

:09:39. > :09:40.It's meant he has had to cancel tour dates

:09:41. > :09:44.In a statement, the star spoke of how he was fortunate

:09:45. > :09:46.to have the most loyal fans, and he apologised for

:09:47. > :09:52.He said he was extremely grateful to his medical team

:09:53. > :09:55.for their excellence in looking after him so well.

:09:56. > :09:58.The singer is expected to make a full recovery,

:09:59. > :10:01.and is already planning a return to the stage in June.

:10:02. > :10:07.Until then, the Rocket Man will be taking it easy.

:10:08. > :10:11.A record number of almost 1.2 million emergency supplies

:10:12. > :10:14.were given out at food banks in the past year, according

:10:15. > :10:17.The Trussell Trust said food banks in areas where

:10:18. > :10:19.the new Universal Credit benefit had been introduced saw an average

:10:20. > :10:23.increase in referrals for emergency food of almost 17% -

:10:24. > :10:27.more than double the national average.

:10:28. > :10:30.The charity said the effect of a six-week waiting period

:10:31. > :10:33.for a first universal credit payment could be serious, leading

:10:34. > :10:47.Ivanka Trump will embark on her first official trip today in her

:10:48. > :10:55.official role as assistant to the president, she will be in Berlin at

:10:56. > :10:58.a summit of meeting of women from different economies at the

:10:59. > :11:02.invitation of the German Chancellor. That's a summary of the news, back

:11:03. > :11:08.to you. We'll bring you an update with James castling shortly, he was

:11:09. > :11:13.on the programme last month talking in moving and courageous terms about

:11:14. > :11:18.his struggles with mental health after his father took his own life

:11:19. > :11:22.when James was 15. It touched a chord with you and that is an

:11:23. > :11:26.understatement. We have an update with him in the next few minutes,

:11:27. > :11:31.we'll bring you that film at about quarter past nine. Already you say

:11:32. > :11:35.this, one person says, a football club is much more than 90 minutes on

:11:36. > :11:40.Saturday as QPR demonstrates every day they are at the heart of the

:11:41. > :11:43.community. This tweet from Paul, James is brave and will back him and

:11:44. > :11:49.we are proud of the club and the players for doing things the James.

:11:50. > :11:56.Another comment says, it is things like this that makes me proud of my

:11:57. > :12:01.club. Another says, such a brave young man, my best wishes to him.

:12:02. > :12:08.We'll be taking James to train with some members of QPR shortly. Do get

:12:09. > :12:11.in touch, use the hashtag if you text you will be charged at the

:12:12. > :12:12.standard network rate. Now time Let's get some sport now with Tim,

:12:13. > :12:19.and some strong words from Serena Wiliams

:12:20. > :12:26.following Ilie Nastase's comments Yes, Serena Williams says that the

:12:27. > :12:29.recent comments that he made about her unborn child are racist and has

:12:30. > :12:32.given her full backing to a full investigation. He made these

:12:33. > :12:39.comments before his team played with Great Britain in the Federation cup

:12:40. > :12:44.and ask if Serena's child would be chocolate with milk. These comments

:12:45. > :12:48.were followed by an outburst of abuse towards Johanna Konta to which

:12:49. > :12:53.left her in tears. Serena Williams has responded on Instagram. She

:12:54. > :12:57.says, it disappoints me to note that we live in a society where people

:12:58. > :13:01.like Ilie Nastase can make racist comments towards myself and my

:13:02. > :13:05.unborn child and sexist comets against my BS. Is that it once and

:13:06. > :13:11.I'll say it again, this world has come far and yet we have some are

:13:12. > :13:14.ago. We have broken down many barriers yet there are a plethora

:13:15. > :13:19.more to go. I will continue to take a lead and stand up for what is

:13:20. > :13:22.right. I humbly thank the International tennis Federation of

:13:23. > :13:27.any consideration given to all the facts in this case. There will have

:13:28. > :13:30.my full support. Newcastle are back in the Premier League, some of my

:13:31. > :13:35.best friends are Newcastle supporters, that is why I'm cheering

:13:36. > :13:39.them. Only one season for them in the Championship after their victory

:13:40. > :13:43.over Preston North end 4-1 last night, setting them up with

:13:44. > :13:49.Brighton, who are already promoted. It was a tense evening. Perhaps some

:13:50. > :13:54.of your friends when the crowd. Newcastle went 2-1 up at half-time

:13:55. > :13:58.to make things a bit less stressful and the nerves was settled when Paul

:13:59. > :14:04.Gallagher of Preston was sent off for handling on the line. Look at

:14:05. > :14:09.that, playing goalkeeper! The resulting penalty was scored this

:14:10. > :14:14.promotion is just for manager Rafa Benitez who was expected to leave

:14:15. > :14:18.last May when they were relegated but instead was brought in to save

:14:19. > :14:22.them. He signed a three-year contract and his loyalty has been

:14:23. > :14:27.repaid. He had been manager of real Madrid earlier last season so it was

:14:28. > :14:33.quite a coup to get him in the first place for Newcastle. And finally

:14:34. > :14:38.more about this picture from the Zlatan Ibrahimovic? You mean his

:14:39. > :14:43.legs! Use of and knee ligament damage in a match last Thursday and

:14:44. > :14:48.while many say this is the end for Zlatan who has been brilliant with

:14:49. > :14:53.28 goals, although his legs do seem to have a lot of veins. He wrote on

:14:54. > :14:57.Instagram, below his legs that he will come back even stronger and

:14:58. > :15:01.says, I will be out for a while but giving up is not an option. Thank

:15:02. > :15:05.you very much. Much more sport throughout the morning.

:15:06. > :15:08.On this programme, as I hope you know by now, we are really very

:15:09. > :15:10.committed to covering the issue of mental health.

:15:11. > :15:13.And that's because you tell us it's a massive issue

:15:14. > :15:19.Last month we introduced you to 21-year-old James Casling.

:15:20. > :15:24.James has struggled since the age of 15, when his dad killed himself.

:15:25. > :15:27.James tried to take his own life on more than one occasion

:15:28. > :15:31.But he told us that playing football gave him a reason to live -

:15:32. > :15:33.with the Queens Park Rangers' mental health team.

:15:34. > :15:38.And on the Englsh Football League's community day of action,

:15:39. > :15:43.he's been to train with three members of the QPR first team.

:15:44. > :15:58.It was like my whole world had just disappeared.

:15:59. > :16:02.At 18, I was ready to die and had made many attempts on my own life.

:16:03. > :16:13.If I had carried on that path, I wouldn't be here today.

:16:14. > :16:16.Every time I put on the kit, I wasn't this ill boy

:16:17. > :16:26.I wish I could predict the future, but obviously, we can't.

:16:27. > :16:33.But it's looking a lot more brighter than it was.

:16:34. > :16:50.COMMENTATOR: What an inspiration he has been to Queens Park Rangers!

:16:51. > :16:52.We can never stop people getting mentally unwell,

:16:53. > :16:56.but we can help them recover with the use of football.

:16:57. > :17:00.It worked for me and many others that I've played for,

:17:01. > :17:22.When I put on the kit and I play with my friends,

:17:23. > :17:31.it feels like we're not friends, we're family.

:17:32. > :17:56.They're currently warming up, preparing

:17:57. > :18:01.The idea of the sessions is to just get people interacting socially

:18:02. > :18:06.We feel it's really important at the club that the pressure is not

:18:07. > :18:09.on them to be the best footballers they can be, but to just

:18:10. > :18:14.exercise and get health and socialise through football.

:18:15. > :18:18.We accept anyone who feels like they want to join in,

:18:19. > :18:22.all mental healths, they're all welcome to come and play.

:18:23. > :18:24.James is a character, to say the least.

:18:25. > :18:28.He's always bubbly, always smiling, very loud, and he's just

:18:29. > :18:34.a privilege as a person to know and to work with.

:18:35. > :18:38.He's been in and out of hospitals and infirmaries

:18:39. > :18:44.So since he's been at QPR, yeah, I'd say his mental health

:18:45. > :18:49.I'd say his personality and who he is has grown so much

:18:50. > :18:57.He's not just got friends down here, he's got family, he's got people

:18:58. > :19:00.that he gets on really well with on a personal level.

:19:01. > :19:02.For James to have that safety net within football,

:19:03. > :19:11.OK, boys, we've got three very important guests this morning.

:19:12. > :19:14.They've come to look at your session and join in with you.

:19:15. > :19:16.They've been training very hard all morning and they've taken

:19:17. > :19:26.We've got Matt Smith, Ryan Manning and Nedum Onuoha.

:19:27. > :19:29.Let's take another look at the star players on today's QPR team sheet.

:19:30. > :19:31.Forward Matt Smith has made an impressive start

:19:32. > :19:35.He'll be hoping to continue his good run of form today.

:19:36. > :19:37.Expect nothing less than a solid defensive performance from club

:19:38. > :19:43.Ryan Manning, at the heart of midfield, has proved to be

:19:44. > :19:47.a popular choice among fans in his breakthrough season.

:19:48. > :19:50.And James Casling has been QPR Healthy Kickers'

:19:51. > :19:57.seasons running and is always a danger in front of goal.

:19:58. > :20:27.So James, how did it feel today, playing alongside

:20:28. > :20:30.three of the greatest footballers that have ever been seen

:20:31. > :20:40.To do that and have people like yourselves come and experience

:20:41. > :20:43.it and realise that there's more to a club than just the first team,

:20:44. > :20:46.I think that's what gets lost in people's minds.

:20:47. > :20:50.They get so agitated with the team losing and all this of stuff

:20:51. > :20:53.that they forget about this stuff that goes on behind the scenes

:20:54. > :20:56.and the actual people who help other people,

:20:57. > :21:01.sort of like coaches that come to schools and come to hospitals

:21:02. > :21:03.and all that sort of stuff and actually make a difference

:21:04. > :21:11.People think football's life and death, when actually, it's not.

:21:12. > :21:19.It's not taken it away or anything like that,

:21:20. > :21:23.it's making my life liveable and it's making me still be

:21:24. > :21:28.here, because I know without football, I wouldn't...

:21:29. > :21:45.Without football at my feet and the kit on my body...

:21:46. > :21:59.People would be having to come to a grave to see me instead.

:22:00. > :22:04.People underestimate the power of football.

:22:05. > :22:09.And when people like yourselves come along and actually

:22:10. > :22:21.It makes people feel good because you're taking

:22:22. > :22:26.It's funny you should say that, because for the three of us today,

:22:27. > :22:28.today was a long training day, but being here has been

:22:29. > :22:31.more of a highlight than the training session itself.

:22:32. > :22:36.What you say, I think as players, we can echo as well.

:22:37. > :22:38.Once you start training every day and playing games,

:22:39. > :22:43.it is a release and you forget about the troubles in the world.

:22:44. > :22:46.Everyone's a human being at the end of the day.

:22:47. > :22:49.We have our ups and downs and everyone has their own

:22:50. > :22:51.personal issues and battles that they're fighting.

:22:52. > :22:58.I think we could probably all say the same thing.

:22:59. > :23:01.Once you step out there, you forget about it and you're

:23:02. > :23:08.focused on football and enjoying yourself, and it is a release.

:23:09. > :23:12.Basically, I went on Victoria Derbyshire

:23:13. > :23:14.on 8th March about how football saved my life.

:23:15. > :23:21.How lost were you when your dad died, when your dad

:23:22. > :23:27.I've always wondered why he would do it, and why my love

:23:28. > :23:34.But then I realised, if someone's like that,

:23:35. > :23:48.I think that hurts a lot more to know there was nothing

:23:49. > :23:57.It's like your whole world gets turned upside down and then...

:23:58. > :24:16.It takes a lot of guts to talk about stuff like that,

:24:17. > :24:21.But I hope that that can inspire other people that are not feeling

:24:22. > :24:25.great about things to come forward and to talk about it,

:24:26. > :24:28.because the development from what I've seen there to you out

:24:29. > :24:33.I saw a guy out there laughing, joking, scoring

:24:34. > :24:39.It's unbelievable to see, and it shows the power of football.

:24:40. > :24:42.And I think that video there just highlights to me

:24:43. > :24:50.I'm hoping that that can inspire others to follow your example.

:24:51. > :24:57.You've inspired me more than I've inspired you.

:24:58. > :25:00.I enjoy coming to these things because I see the effect it has

:25:01. > :25:08.You feel like it's life and death on a Saturday,

:25:09. > :25:11.but then you come to something like this, and Saturday is now

:25:12. > :25:14.so far in the past because this is the more important thing for me

:25:15. > :25:18.now, seeing and hoping that I can have a positive effect on the people

:25:19. > :25:21.And if they go away feeling 1% better about themselves

:25:22. > :25:24.from me just being there, then I feel like I've really

:25:25. > :25:28.So how does being a professional footballer

:25:29. > :25:37.I thnk for me, you go through different stages with it all.

:25:38. > :25:40.When I was younger, maybe Ryan's age, when I first started to play,

:25:41. > :25:42.I was really nervous going into games.

:25:43. > :25:45.I always felt like I was being judged by everybody in the stadium,

:25:46. > :25:49.I never really felt like I'd made it.

:25:50. > :25:53.I was always trying to impress people.

:25:54. > :25:56.And when you go into games with that sort of nervous energy,

:25:57. > :25:58.if something doesn't go right, then you feel a lot

:25:59. > :26:02.of strain on yourself and you start to doubt yourself.

:26:03. > :26:04.When I was really young, we were playing in derby games

:26:05. > :26:06.and if we didn't win on the Saturday,

:26:07. > :26:09.I would stay in my house until the following Saturday.

:26:10. > :26:11.I would really fear going out and being seen because I thought

:26:12. > :26:15.people would ridicule me, which was difficult.

:26:16. > :26:18.But now I'm 30 years of age and hundreds of games later,

:26:19. > :26:20.you appreciate that there's more to life

:26:21. > :26:25.It's your job and it's very important and so on,

:26:26. > :26:29.but the fact is, I have a daughter now, and knowing that I can go home

:26:30. > :26:32.to her takes away all the stress that I feel.

:26:33. > :26:38.I'm very new to it. I've only played 15 games or so.

:26:39. > :26:43.The big thing for me is getting used to it and being able to block out

:26:44. > :26:49.all the abuse you get from opposing fans and stuff like that.

:26:50. > :26:52.There were times when I was younger when my parents would travel

:26:53. > :26:55.the scale of the country to come and see me play and I would lose

:26:56. > :26:57.and I wouldn't talk to them after the game.

:26:58. > :27:00.I would think they'd just done 300 miles in the car,

:27:01. > :27:03.and they're not even able to talk to me after the game, whereas now,

:27:04. > :27:06.I've learned how to ride the highs and lows so that you keep

:27:07. > :27:08.level-headed, which is really important.

:27:09. > :27:11.Footballers have lots of ups and downs, and it's difficult

:27:12. > :27:14.at times because you're judged as a product, so to speak.

:27:15. > :27:20.It's difficult not to take things personally when someone tells

:27:21. > :27:26.Nine times out of ten, players are going to have

:27:27. > :27:28.significantly more lows than they will highs

:27:29. > :27:31.in their careers, so it boils down to mentality and how

:27:32. > :27:38.I hope people will see that even though it can be dark,

:27:39. > :27:46.It would be a lie to say it's easy, because it's not.

:27:47. > :27:50.But three years later, I'm still alive and after struggling

:27:51. > :27:56.with all that and having spent two years in hospital and being

:27:57. > :28:02.on medication and stuff, it's going to be a long battle

:28:03. > :28:06.and everyone has their own battles, whether they're short or long.

:28:07. > :28:13.You just can't give up, because something amazing

:28:14. > :28:15.could happen tomorrow, but you've decided that

:28:16. > :28:19.because of your struggles, you've said you're not

:28:20. > :28:37.Just make sure you're there to see it, that's all I can say.

:28:38. > :28:41.That was James training with QPR captain Nedum Onuoha,

:28:42. > :28:53.Thank you to those players. Jamie says, "An incredibly up toing story

:28:54. > :28:59.on your programme today. There is more to football than what's on the

:29:00. > :29:04.pitch. "Tweet from Susan, "Well done to QPR for championing young

:29:05. > :29:09.people." Roy says, "I'm choked up. Well done to QPR." Another viewer

:29:10. > :29:11.says, "Depression is a horrible thing. Don't blame yourself for your

:29:12. > :29:16.dad. You are an inspiration, Bud." We'll pass on all your

:29:17. > :29:18.messages to James. And you can watch and share that

:29:19. > :29:21.full film on our programme Queens Park Rangers and other clubs

:29:22. > :29:25.with the English Football League spend about ?50 million on projects

:29:26. > :29:31.in the community this season. As part of today's

:29:32. > :29:34.community day of action, they're showcasing the kind of work

:29:35. > :29:37.they do in the community - including projects like the mental

:29:38. > :29:39.health football team We speak to a reporter in Arkansas

:29:40. > :29:49.who witnessed America's first double execution in seventeen years -

:29:50. > :29:59.and a campaigner for the death And being the First Daughter,

:30:00. > :30:05.Ivanka Trump, attends a summit for women in Germany on her first

:30:06. > :30:08.International trip as the official Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

:30:09. > :30:13.with a summary of today s news. Labour will set out its Brexit

:30:14. > :30:16.policy today, saying that the party would guarantee the rights of EU

:30:17. > :30:20.citizens living in the UK on day It's promising to scrap

:30:21. > :30:23.the government's negotiating plans and press for a deal that it says

:30:24. > :30:26.will retain the benefits of the single market and protect

:30:27. > :30:30.jobs and the economy. The Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir

:30:31. > :30:33.Starmer says Labour would fight for the best possible

:30:34. > :30:36.relationship with the EU. We have to accept

:30:37. > :30:39.the referendum result. I passionately campaigned to stay

:30:40. > :30:43.in, I really wanted us to stay in. I went across the country

:30:44. > :30:46.campaigning to stay in, but we lost the referendum

:30:47. > :30:48.and therefore, we need We need to identify what sort

:30:49. > :30:56.of UK we want in Europe, and what the Labour Party is saying

:30:57. > :30:58.is, we want to negotiate a relationship with our EU

:30:59. > :31:12.partners which is based It's just after it 1130 when Sir

:31:13. > :31:14.Keir Starmer will be joining us to answer your questions.

:31:15. > :31:19.Two convicted murderers have been executed in the American

:31:20. > :31:21.state of Arkansas, the first double execution

:31:22. > :31:28.Jack Jones and Marcel Williams were among eight

:31:29. > :31:31.inmates scheduled to be put to death over the course of 11 days.

:31:32. > :31:33.The timetable was determined by the imminent expiry date

:31:34. > :31:35.of the state's supplies of one of the three drugs required

:31:36. > :31:47.The French anti-EU anti-immigration presidential candidate Marine Le Pen

:31:48. > :31:50.is to step down as leader of the French National Front party

:31:51. > :31:53.The move comes just a day after she reached the second

:31:54. > :31:56.round of the French election, where she will face

:31:57. > :32:00.She told French TV that she needed to be above party politics.

:32:01. > :32:06.Sir Elton John has cancelled a series of shows in America

:32:07. > :32:10.after falling ill with what's been described as a "potentially deadly

:32:11. > :32:17.The singer - who's 70 - spent 2 nights in intensive care

:32:18. > :32:19.after contracting the illness while on tour in Chile

:32:20. > :32:23.His management team says he's now resting at home and is expected

:32:24. > :32:26.A record number of almost 1.2 million emergency supplies

:32:27. > :32:29.were given out at food banks in the past year, according

:32:30. > :32:34.The Trussell Trust said food banks in areas

:32:35. > :32:37.where the new Universal Credit benefit had been introduced saw

:32:38. > :32:39.an average increase in referrals for emergency food of almost 17% -

:32:40. > :32:41.more than double the national average.

:32:42. > :32:45.The charity said the effect of a six-week waiting period

:32:46. > :32:47.for a first universal credit payment could be serious, leading

:32:48. > :32:56.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.00.

:32:57. > :33:02.And the text from Mark, there are so many about James, saying, massive

:33:03. > :33:07.respect to James and the football club for what they are doing. Now

:33:08. > :33:10.more sport with Tim. Newcastle United will play Premier League

:33:11. > :33:16.football next season, they have secured promotion at the first

:33:17. > :33:20.attempt. Christian Atsu scored the pick of the goals for Rafa Benitez's

:33:21. > :33:26.side last night as they beat Preston in front of more than 50,000 at St

:33:27. > :33:30.James's Park. Serena Williams says Ilie Nastase's comments about her

:33:31. > :33:34.unborn child are racist. There are many and Federation cup captain has

:33:35. > :33:38.been provisionally suspended by the tennis Association since making

:33:39. > :33:43.verbally abusive remarks about Serena Williams and verbally abusing

:33:44. > :33:48.Johanna Konta tear at the weekend. Serena says the comments disappoint

:33:49. > :33:54.her. Marco Fu beat Australia's Neil Robertson 13-11 to reach the last

:33:55. > :33:58.eight where he will play defending champion Mark Selby. Ronnie

:33:59. > :34:04.O'Sullivan starts his quarterfinal against Ding Junhui shortly, and

:34:05. > :34:10.Liam Stewart, the son of Sir Rod Stewart, scored for Great Britain

:34:11. > :34:15.last night as the hockey team won 5-1 against Estonia in the World

:34:16. > :34:17.Championship group match. The first pack is the deepest and all that!

:34:18. > :34:21.Thank you! The American state of Arkansas has

:34:22. > :34:24.executed two prisoners on death row after the Supreme Court

:34:25. > :34:26.rejected their last-minute appeals. It is the first double execution

:34:27. > :34:29.on the same day in the US The convicted men, Jack Jones

:34:30. > :34:34.and Marcel Williams, were both sentenced to death

:34:35. > :34:38.for rapes and murders Jack Jones was convicted

:34:39. > :34:42.in 1996 of raping and strangling a woman called

:34:43. > :34:45.Mary Phillips and attempting Her widower James Phillips says

:34:46. > :34:52.he has no sympathy for him. It don't matter if they suffered

:34:53. > :34:56.a bit as far as I'm concerned, I said "Go down to on your three

:34:57. > :35:17.wheeler, see if she had But don't go out on the highway,

:35:18. > :35:20.it's about three miles So he does that, comes

:35:21. > :35:27.back and I said "Well, just stay in the house and she'll be

:35:28. > :35:32.home after a while". So about 11 o'clock,

:35:33. > :35:36.Mr Jolly called me, Darla was spending

:35:37. > :35:42.the night with him. And he said "You need to get home,

:35:43. > :35:48.something has happened". So I pack up my bags at the hotel,

:35:49. > :35:51.call my supervisor and say So I drove 500 miles knowing

:35:52. > :36:10.nothing of what happened. She was sexually abused

:36:11. > :36:17.in every way possible. And then as she was suffering,

:36:18. > :36:20.he took a cord off a coffee I don't know how much meaner a man

:36:21. > :36:27.can get to do something like that. I know a lot of people have forgiven

:36:28. > :36:34.him and all that kind of stuff, So they can protest all

:36:35. > :36:39.they want, it don't matter. Did they marry their high

:36:40. > :36:42.school sweetheart? What would they do,

:36:43. > :36:43.how would they feel Would they still be defending

:36:44. > :36:48.somebody like this? Arkansas initially planned

:36:49. > :36:58.to execute eight inmates in eleven days this month,

:36:59. > :37:03.because its supply of one of the drugs used in the lethal

:37:04. > :37:06.injection cocktail expires Four of the planned executions have

:37:07. > :37:10.been put on hold by court order. The first one was

:37:11. > :37:12.carried out last week. We can speak now to Jessi Turnure,

:37:13. > :37:16.a journalist in Arkansas who was a witness at last

:37:17. > :37:21.night's executions. And Jeff Rosenzweig,

:37:22. > :37:35.a lawyer who represents a number And we hope to speak to a Republican

:37:36. > :37:39.politician in the Arkansas 's house of representatives called Rebecca

:37:40. > :37:42.Petey whose 12-year-old daughter was murdered in 1996 and the man who

:37:43. > :37:49.killed that girl is still on death row. Jessi, can you describe to our

:37:50. > :37:56.British audience what you witnessed? It turned into quite a long process.

:37:57. > :38:00.Witnesses were selected, when it was time they drove us to where the

:38:01. > :38:04.execution chamber was and we had to wait in a van for a long time. When

:38:05. > :38:09.we were finally brought into the chamber we could watch, you walk in

:38:10. > :38:14.and there are four rows of chairs, and in front of you you are just

:38:15. > :38:21.seeing for large windows, a black curtain covering where Mr Williams

:38:22. > :38:29.or Mr Jones would have been, preparing for the execution. Once

:38:30. > :38:32.they are ready, again this is a lengthy process but to sum it up

:38:33. > :38:42.once they are ready and the curtains open, you see Williams lying on a

:38:43. > :38:45.Gurney, we saw that two Ivys were in his right arm and he was strapped

:38:46. > :38:50.down from his chest to his head so he was looking straight at the

:38:51. > :38:54.ceiling so he didn't look at us, he didn't have any last words so they

:38:55. > :39:01.started the process and his eyes closed very slowly and then his just

:39:02. > :39:05.started moving very quickly, -- has just started moving. So to

:39:06. > :39:08.abbreviate the process after that happened we slowly watched him

:39:09. > :39:14.falling asleep, slowly watched him stop breathing, and then after 14

:39:15. > :39:20.minutes the coroner declared that he was dead. What effect was at having

:39:21. > :39:24.on you, watching him dying? That was something I thought I could prepare

:39:25. > :39:29.for but I don't think anyone could really prepare for that. My

:39:30. > :39:34.journalistic instinct kicked in over my human instinct. It was my

:39:35. > :39:38.responsibility and also the law that I was supposed to be there to watch,

:39:39. > :39:45.so I was just taking notes very quickly, since we were the ones

:39:46. > :39:57.giving the information to the other journalists it was important. I was

:39:58. > :40:02.reminding myself of what a colleague told me, you are here to watch this

:40:03. > :40:07.man die, you are here because he took another life and our justice

:40:08. > :40:11.system says this is the way this man should be punished. Chav, let me

:40:12. > :40:15.bring you in, you are a lawyer for some of these men on death row and

:40:16. > :40:20.you tried to block these executions and appeal against them on what

:40:21. > :40:24.grounds? And if Iraq in the case of Jack Jones, several grounds. First

:40:25. > :40:31.was the issue of the use of this substance in order to induce

:40:32. > :40:49.anaesthesia. The problem specifically with this

:40:50. > :40:55.substance midazolam is that it is not usually sufficient to avoid pain

:40:56. > :40:59.and torture when used with the other drugs. And we don't know if it

:41:00. > :41:12.worked that way or not in Mr Jones's case. Another reason of course is

:41:13. > :41:18.that the execution of the death sentence is often imposed

:41:19. > :41:25.arbitrarily and capriciously. In Mr Jones's case in particular, the

:41:26. > :41:31.Arkansas Supreme Court had analysed a particular issue in his case

:41:32. > :41:40.differently and to the detriment of Mr Jones. Differently than it had

:41:41. > :41:45.done in similar cases with the same issue. I would get into the

:41:46. > :41:51.specifics of it but Mr Jones's case deviates from the way the Arkansas

:41:52. > :41:54.Supreme Court has analysed a particular issue involving

:41:55. > :41:59.contradictory findings by the jury or inconsistent findings by the

:42:00. > :42:03.jury. But we were never able to convince the court that that was

:42:04. > :42:08.wrong. I do have to say that Mr Jones often and repeatedly expressed

:42:09. > :42:14.his remorse for his involvement in the death of Ms Phillips and the

:42:15. > :42:20.other injuries that were suffered by everyone, but physical injuries and

:42:21. > :42:27.psychological injuries. Right. And would expressing remorse mean that

:42:28. > :42:34.occasionally inmates have been removed from death row or not?

:42:35. > :42:43.Remorse by itself generally doesn't have that effect, at least, that's

:42:44. > :42:51.been my experience, it was something that Mr Jones did repeatedly

:42:52. > :42:58.express, both years ago, this was long before I began representing

:42:59. > :43:03.him, but also recently. OK. Thank you both. We appreciate your time.

:43:04. > :43:08.Thank you for talking to our British audience. We were trying to get hold

:43:09. > :43:12.of Rebecca Petey, a Republican politician whose 12-year-old

:43:13. > :43:16.daughter was killed in 1999 and the man who killed that little girl is

:43:17. > :43:19.still on death row, perhaps we can speak to her later.

:43:20. > :43:22.Labour say they would scrap Theresa may's Brexit

:43:23. > :43:25.plans if they win power - so what would they do instead?

:43:26. > :43:27.Stay with us as their Brexit spokesman, Sir Keir Starmer,

:43:28. > :43:35.We will dip into that speech feel. -- for you.

:43:36. > :43:38.Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump is making her first

:43:39. > :43:39.official foreign trip as a presidential adviser today.

:43:40. > :43:42.She's been invited by the German chancellor Angela Merkel

:43:43. > :43:44.to attend a summit in Berlin on women and entrepreneurship.

:43:45. > :43:46.It's been a startling rise to the world stage

:43:47. > :43:48.for the daughter of America's first billionaire president.

:43:49. > :43:50.She styled herself as a businesswoman with a jewellery

:43:51. > :43:53.and clothing range after graduating from business school and modelling

:43:54. > :43:57.When Donald Trump was accused of sexism when he ran for president,

:43:58. > :44:00.it was Ivanka who worked to woo female voters.

:44:01. > :44:03.Though it's fair to say she's found herself in some fairly awkward

:44:04. > :44:07.If Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I would be dating her.

:44:08. > :44:21.Did your daughter get breast implants?

:44:22. > :44:36.She looks more voluptuous than ever and she got thinner.

:44:37. > :44:46.What do you say to those women who are fearful?

:44:47. > :44:54.I say, what he has shown his entire life is his support

:44:55. > :44:58.Ivanka, what's the favourite thing you have in common with your father?

:44:59. > :45:15.To me, this particular title was about giving critics the comfort

:45:16. > :45:27.that I'm holding myself to that highest ethical standard,

:45:28. > :45:30.but I'll weigh in with my father, and the on the issues

:45:31. > :45:34.People talk about gender equality, but do they actually live it?

:45:35. > :45:37.He believes in equality amongst the genders, economically,

:45:38. > :45:40.My father has empowered women including me his whole life.

:45:41. > :45:43.And now she has the job of First Daughter and Assistant

:45:44. > :45:52.to the President, described as her father's "eyes and ears".

:45:53. > :45:57.We can speak now to Shannon Coulter who set up the campaign to boycott

:45:58. > :46:00.Katrin Pribyl, the UK correspondent for several German

:46:01. > :46:02.newspapers and Tim Teeman, senior editor at the Daily Beast

:46:03. > :46:03.in New York who met Ivanka at Trump Tower.

:46:04. > :46:13.What did you think of her, Tim? Extremely self controlled. This was

:46:14. > :46:18.giving President Trump's presidential campaign. Very self

:46:19. > :46:23.controlled and very much in charge of herself and very much in charge

:46:24. > :46:28.of the brand evan ka and in charge of the brand Trump and very, very

:46:29. > :46:32.loyal to her father, although that at that time although he hasn't

:46:33. > :46:41.reached peak Trump, she was gearing up for a rough presidential campaign

:46:42. > :46:45.which came to be and she was beginning to thread a delicate line

:46:46. > :46:50.that she is continuing to thread. Some would say as well as she can

:46:51. > :47:00.and some would say not very well at all given the mounting criticism of

:47:01. > :47:06.her by various groups in America. Why do you think that Angela Merkel

:47:07. > :47:17.extend this personal invitation to evan ka Trump? Ivanka Trump? When

:47:18. > :47:21.they've met last month during her visit in Washington I just think,

:47:22. > :47:34.you know, by chance they were sitting next to each other. Ivanka

:47:35. > :47:38.Trump switched so she could switch next to Angela Merkel. Merkel seemed

:47:39. > :47:43.irritated in the beginning, but then there was a friendly atmosphere,'

:47:44. > :47:48.friendly conversation so I think for her, it's quite a diplomatic move.

:47:49. > :47:52.An opportunity to strengthen relations between Germany and the

:47:53. > :47:57.US? And to find access to Donald Trump via his daughter. Donald Trump

:47:58. > :48:05.said he and Angela Merkel had unbelievable chemistry? It sounded

:48:06. > :48:11.differently last year when he called her insane for ruining the country.

:48:12. > :48:16.I don't think he had met her then. No. Shannon, tell us why you set-up

:48:17. > :48:21.the campaign to boycott Ivanka Trump's products? The boycott is of

:48:22. > :48:25.the retailers that carry Trump products including Ivanka Trump,

:48:26. > :48:29.Donald Trump and Trump products so we've dropped 23 companies from the

:48:30. > :48:33.list and 54 remain. The boycott was born in the wake of the release of

:48:34. > :48:37.the access Hollywood tapes so it was, you know, a response to that.

:48:38. > :48:42.But layers of meaning have come into the boycott since then. We have seen

:48:43. > :48:46.a great deal of activity around it during the attempted Muslim ban for

:48:47. > :48:48.instance, during the rescinding of basic bathroom protections for

:48:49. > :48:53.transgender studentsment people are turning to this as a way to

:48:54. > :48:59.peacefully protest the president. Do you think it is having any impact on

:49:00. > :49:03.people like Ivanka Trump who clearly has influence on her dad? I don't

:49:04. > :49:08.know whether it is having influence on Ivanka Trump, but I know it is

:49:09. > :49:12.having influence on companies and their ability to consider their core

:49:13. > :49:19.customer base which is in this case women. And in cases like, you know,

:49:20. > :49:22.Breitbart which has seen 1400 advertisers plus drop them over the

:49:23. > :49:26.course of the last six months, I think it is encouraging, a move

:49:27. > :49:34.towards more moderate rhetoric. We were active as protesters in the

:49:35. > :49:38.recent story. This is encouraging departure from extremism. Right.

:49:39. > :49:44.Breitbart is the website that people say is a right-wing website. Are

:49:45. > :49:50.people right to think that Ivanka Trump is the sort of calming

:49:51. > :49:55.moderate influence on her father? I think certainly when I spoke to her

:49:56. > :50:01.in November 2015 there was that element to be fair. She did, and she

:50:02. > :50:10.was that. I think as time has gun on, it's hard tore desaoufor. There

:50:11. > :50:14.have been various attacks on LGBT groups in America, and Ivanka Trump

:50:15. > :50:21.at that point, the question was where was Ivanka Trump? If there was

:50:22. > :50:29.in influence on her father, where was it evident? That's why the

:50:30. > :50:34.boycott. The brand is still selling. There was a story yesterday that you

:50:35. > :50:37.may have seen, a company has been putting other labels on her clothes

:50:38. > :50:41.to sell at discount stores. No suggestion she had anything to do

:50:42. > :50:45.with that. Her name isn't as toxic as her father's. She still commands

:50:46. > :50:49.some kind of mystery or some kind of questioning for those on the left.

:50:50. > :50:54.People will be interested, I think, to see what level of influence she

:50:55. > :50:59.brings to bear in Germany at this conference that Chancellor Merkel is

:51:00. > :51:02.holding. Do the German know Ivanka Trump?

:51:03. > :51:08.What do they think of this visit? Are they bothered? Well, it's a big

:51:09. > :51:12.deal today and they expect to see protests as well actually. I feel

:51:13. > :51:19.the audience is still not sure what to make of the first daughter. There

:51:20. > :51:27.is lots of fear and suspicion about the US presidency and I do sense

:51:28. > :51:32.that people hope she is the moderate political force on her father, but

:51:33. > :51:43.people just don't know. We will see. Yeah, we will see. Thank you.

:51:44. > :51:45.Next this morning, Syrian refugees in Lebanon tell us their camps

:51:46. > :51:47.are infested with rats, attracted by bags of waste that

:51:48. > :51:52.Agencies working in the camps fear it's a health risk.

:51:53. > :51:53.The Lebanese government admits public services

:51:54. > :51:57.Because of its size and proximity, the country's taken in more Syrians

:51:58. > :51:59.per head than anywhere else in the world.

:52:00. > :52:02.Our reporter Ben James has been to a camp in the Bekaa Valley,

:52:03. > :52:09.These kids have escaped from the war in Syria, but they still

:52:10. > :52:19.Their refugee camp's got a problem with rats.

:52:20. > :52:27.He says a rat crawled over his eye and then ran off.

:52:28. > :52:43.She shows us into the kitchen, where the rats come every night.

:52:44. > :52:47.TRANSLATION: I was sleeping on the cushions with my granny

:52:48. > :52:51.He bit me here on my face and then ran away.

:52:52. > :52:53.I was scared. I couldn't sleep after that.

:52:54. > :52:58.I thought he might come back and bite me again.

:52:59. > :53:02.When it walks, it goes like this, because it's so big.

:53:03. > :53:09.Azeez's daughter Shema also got bitten.

:53:10. > :53:11.TRANSLATION: My daughter was sleeping and it was dark.

:53:12. > :53:14.I heard her crying and then I saw her face was covered in blood.

:53:15. > :53:21.I saw she was bitten here on her lip.

:53:22. > :53:24.It came back another time and bit her brother.

:53:25. > :53:27.Another time, it bit her here, on her cheek.

:53:28. > :53:34.It's the most important problem that needs solving so that our children

:53:35. > :53:41.All of the kids here have a story to tell about the rats.

:53:42. > :53:53.But this is also a story about the strain on a country that's

:53:54. > :53:56.taken in up to 1.5 million refugees from the war next door.

:53:57. > :53:58.There are simply not enough rubbish bins here

:53:59. > :54:04.They're only collected once a month as well.

:54:05. > :54:07.All of that means the rubbish collects by this standing water,

:54:08. > :54:10.this ditch that goes down the side of the camp.

:54:11. > :54:12.What the people who live here tell me is that that's why

:54:13. > :54:18.It's the local council's job to collect the rubbish around here,

:54:19. > :54:22.Partly because they say their population of 5,000

:54:23. > :54:30.TRANSLATION: There are between 10,000 and 15,000 Syrian refugees

:54:31. > :54:33.living in houses and makeshift camps in this district.

:54:34. > :54:35.We do have the manpower to collect garbage.

:54:36. > :54:39.The problem is that we don't have a truck and we don't have

:54:40. > :54:49.Collecting rubbish is a big political issue in Lebanon.

:54:50. > :54:52.When a landfill closed in 2015, rubbish piled up in the streets

:54:53. > :54:55.and there were protests across the country.

:54:56. > :54:59.But when you live in a tent, the consequences are worse.

:55:00. > :55:03.It's a common problem in camps across Lebanon.

:55:04. > :55:08.Some organisations see the need for education.

:55:09. > :55:11.This one is running classes to help Sheha and her

:55:12. > :55:16.They get advice on how to store their food and waste

:55:17. > :55:21.When he was asking for international help recently, Lebanon's prime

:55:22. > :55:23.minister said public services aren't designed for this influx,

:55:24. > :55:36.something that's pretty obvious around here.

:55:37. > :55:46.Thank you very much for your messages about James and the update

:55:47. > :55:49.we brought you earlier. He was on our programme last month and he

:55:50. > :55:55.talked about his struggles with mental health issues after his

:55:56. > :56:02.father killed himself on James '15th birthday. James found... Found help

:56:03. > :56:07.through playing football, playing for the mental health team at QPR

:56:08. > :56:12.and we featured him today as he met some of his QPR idols. This texter

:56:13. > :56:17.says, "I've just watched James. When he said I couldn't understand why

:56:18. > :56:21.his love for his dad was not enough, he related to that. My mum was an

:56:22. > :56:26.alcoholic since I was the age of six and I could never understand why my

:56:27. > :56:31.love was not enough. I used to beg her to stop drinking. I'm nearly 55

:56:32. > :56:34.and I still can't get over it." Mrs W, "Well done, James. My daughter

:56:35. > :56:39.plays with a mental health football team locally. She used to play high

:56:40. > :56:42.level football before her mental health struggles took overment to

:56:43. > :56:46.have this release from the torture and torment going on in their heads

:56:47. > :56:50.is amazing. Thank you to all the volunteers throughout the country

:56:51. > :56:55.who helped make this happen." Sam on Facebook, "I am a QPR fan, I've had

:56:56. > :56:59.cancer twice in my short life. I'm 23. I have been in some very dark

:57:00. > :57:05.places, but football, like James, just makes me happy and I love QPR

:57:06. > :57:07.so much." Thank you for those. Keep them

:57:08. > :57:10.coming in. If you're watching on BBC Two, in

:57:11. > :57:13.a moment World Championship Snooker. To continue watching our programme

:57:14. > :57:16.turn over to the BBC News Channel - where coming up in the next half

:57:17. > :57:22.hour, one of the biggest food bank providers says areas

:57:23. > :57:24.where the new universal credit benefit has been introduced has seen

:57:25. > :57:27.the use of its foodbanks double compared with other areas,

:57:28. > :57:29.we've a special report. And Sir Elton John cancels his US

:57:30. > :57:32.tour and is recovering at home after suffering what's been

:57:33. > :57:34.described as a "potentially Let's get the latest

:57:35. > :57:55.weather update with Carol. Some of us have seen snow this

:57:56. > :57:59.morning. You can tell from our Weather Watchers pictures in

:58:00. > :58:05.Aviemore or indeed hail as we have got from Aberdeenshire. So there is

:58:06. > :58:08.a real wintery mix in the showers, but others of us waking up to

:58:09. > :58:11.sunshine. There is quite a bit of sunshine around. We have got a lot

:58:12. > :58:15.of showers coming in on a strong northerly wind across the north of

:58:16. > :58:18.the country as we come further, look how well spaced the isobars are. If

:58:19. > :58:22.you are out of the breeze in the south, it will feel pleasant. But if

:58:23. > :58:25.anything the showers will get going through the morning and into the

:58:26. > :58:30.afternoon. Still a wintry component to them. We are looking at rain,

:58:31. > :58:34.sleet, hail, and also some snow. Oon at lower levels, but we don't expect

:58:35. > :58:38.the snow to settle at lower levels. In the wind, it will feel cold.

:58:39. > :58:41.Aberdeen six, London 13 Celsius. It will feel more like freezing in

:58:42. > :58:44.Aberdeen if you're in the wind and around about nine or ten Celsius in

:58:45. > :58:47.London. As we head on through the evening

:58:48. > :58:51.and overnight, we hang on to that gusty wind and it will be

:58:52. > :58:54.particularly gusty around the showers, but then a ridge of high

:58:55. > :58:58.pressure starts to build in from the west so that will kill off the

:58:59. > :59:01.showers and although there will be some around the coasts and we will

:59:02. > :59:05.hang on to some across central and eastern and northern areas. Still

:59:06. > :59:08.wintry in nature too. Away from the showers, there will be a lot of dry

:59:09. > :59:12.weather and clear skies. So there will be a widespread frost and there

:59:13. > :59:15.is the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Tomorrow, here is the high

:59:16. > :59:19.pressure building in from the west. The wind around it coming from the

:59:20. > :59:22.north-west, so it won't feel as cold across north-west Scotland, but if

:59:23. > :59:26.you're in the South East, the winds will come from a northerly

:59:27. > :59:30.direction. If you're in it, it will feel nippier and still the potential

:59:31. > :59:33.for the showers across central and eastern areas to have a wintry mix.

:59:34. > :59:37.Through the course of the day, the cloud is going to thicken across

:59:38. > :59:40.Scotland and also Northern Ireland. Heralding the arrival of our next

:59:41. > :59:44.system which is going to produce some patchy rain. But in between,

:59:45. > :59:49.there will be some sunshine. Temperatures tomorrow, around about

:59:50. > :59:53.nine Celsius in Stornoway and further south, a

:59:54. > :59:57.Hello it's Tuesday April 25th, it's 10am, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:59:58. > :00:02.Last month we introduced you to 21-year-old James Casling, who moved

:00:03. > :00:05.many of you to tears when he described how the joy

:00:06. > :00:07.of playing football effectively stopped him taking his own life.

:00:08. > :00:10.We keep in touch with James and have now taken him to train

:00:11. > :00:15.with the first team of the club he supports, QPR.

:00:16. > :00:25.Without football at my feet and a kid on my body, -- and a football

:00:26. > :00:31.kit on my body, it's sad to say but I think people would be coming to a

:00:32. > :00:34.grave to see me instead. Thank you to the many of you who have got in

:00:35. > :00:37.touch about James with your own stories. Be talking to some of you

:00:38. > :00:50.before 11am. Also on the programme. # It's a little bit

:00:51. > :00:59.funny... Sir Elton John cancels a series

:01:00. > :01:01.of concerts in America after being taken to hospital

:01:02. > :01:04.with a potentially deadly He's now recovering at home -

:01:05. > :01:07.we'll bring you more. And Labour says it will scrap

:01:08. > :01:09.Theresa May's Brexit plans AND guarantee the rights of EU

:01:10. > :01:12.citizens living in the UK if it wins the election -

:01:13. > :01:15.this is the scene live in central London where the party's Brexit

:01:16. > :01:22.spokesman Keir Starmer We will bring you some of the speech

:01:23. > :01:27.live. Time for the latest BBC News with Joanna.

:01:28. > :01:29.Labour will set out its Brexit policy shortly,

:01:30. > :01:33.would guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK on day

:01:34. > :01:36.It's promising to scrap the government's negotiating plans

:01:37. > :01:39.and press for a deal that it says will retain the benefits

:01:40. > :01:41.of the single market and protect jobs and the economy.

:01:42. > :01:44.The Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer says Labour would fight

:01:45. > :01:46.for the best possible relationship with the EU.

:01:47. > :01:49.We have to accept the referendum result.

:01:50. > :01:52.I passionately campaigned to stay in, I really wanted us to stay in.

:01:53. > :01:54.I went across the country campaigning to stay in,

:01:55. > :01:56.but we lost the referendum and therefore, we need

:01:57. > :02:01.We need to identify what sort of UK we want in Europe,

:02:02. > :02:05.and what the Labour Party is saying is that we want to negotiate

:02:06. > :02:07.a relationship with our EU partners which is based

:02:08. > :02:23.This is the scene live in central London where we should shortly see

:02:24. > :02:25.the shadow Brexit secretary getting to speak on the Labour Party 's

:02:26. > :02:27.plans. And just after 11.30 on the BBC

:02:28. > :02:30.News Channel Sir Keir Starmer will be joining us to

:02:31. > :02:32.answer your questions. You text us on 61124 or use

:02:33. > :02:35.the hashtag bbcAskThis. Two convicted murderers have been

:02:36. > :02:37.executed in the American state of Arkansas,

:02:38. > :02:38.the first double execution Jack Jones and Marcel

:02:39. > :02:43.Williams were among eight inmates scheduled to be put to death

:02:44. > :02:47.over the course of 11 days. The timetable was determined

:02:48. > :02:51.by the imminent expiry date of the state's supplies of one

:02:52. > :02:54.of the three drugs required French president Francois Hollande

:02:55. > :02:59.and presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen

:03:00. > :03:02.are attending a commemoration ceremony for the policeman killed

:03:03. > :03:09.in an attack last week in Paris. It comes as Marine Le Pen

:03:10. > :03:12.has announced she is of the French National Front party

:03:13. > :03:16.to focus on her campaign and be Sir Elton John has cancelled

:03:17. > :03:21.a series of shows in America after falling ill with what's been

:03:22. > :03:24.described as a "potentially deadly The singer - who's 70 -

:03:25. > :03:28.spent 2 nights in intensive care after contracting the illness

:03:29. > :03:30.while on tour in Chile His management team says he's now

:03:31. > :03:39.resting at home and is expected A record number of almost

:03:40. > :03:42.1.2 million emergency supplies were given out at food banks

:03:43. > :03:45.in the past year, according The Trussell Trust said

:03:46. > :03:49.food banks in areas where the new Universal Credit

:03:50. > :03:52.benefit had been introduced saw an average increase in referrals

:03:53. > :03:54.for emergency food of almost 17% - more than double

:03:55. > :03:58.the national average. The charity said the effect

:03:59. > :04:01.of a six-week waiting period for a first universal credit payment

:04:02. > :04:04.could be serious, leading That's a summary of the latest BBC

:04:05. > :04:19.News - more at 10.30. A quick e-mail from Mayoress, what a

:04:20. > :04:24.moving film with James Casling. Thank you for doing it, I learned

:04:25. > :04:29.something from you, James, it was so brave of you to make this film. We

:04:30. > :04:32.have had several messages from people describing who they turned to

:04:33. > :04:38.or what they turned to to help them when they had mental health issues.

:04:39. > :04:39.We would talk to some of you before the end of the programme so stay

:04:40. > :04:47.tuned for that. Now the sport at him. Thank you.

:04:48. > :04:50.Newcastle have made an immediate return to the Premier League, they

:04:51. > :04:56.beat Preston North end 4-1 last night in front of more than 50,000

:04:57. > :04:59.people. Newcastle needed to win to follow Brighton and secure

:05:00. > :05:04.promotion. Christian Atsu gave them a 2-1 lead before the break and the

:05:05. > :05:10.task was made easier when Paul Gallagher of Preston handled the on

:05:11. > :05:15.the line commie was sent off and the resulting penalty was scored. Peres

:05:16. > :05:23.added his second to complete the win and get promotion and the first time

:05:24. > :05:27.of asking for Rafa Ibanez. The Championship is so physical, you

:05:28. > :05:32.play several times in a week sometimes and you have to recover

:05:33. > :05:36.and people come back from injuries, people don't realise, the division

:05:37. > :05:40.is totally different, you have to change off of your squad. So to do

:05:41. > :05:50.all those things and perform and win and keep the fans behind the team,

:05:51. > :05:53.think it's been a fantastic season. England have named their one-day

:05:54. > :05:57.squad for a series with Ireland and South Africa in the subsequent ICC

:05:58. > :06:02.champions Trophy beginning on June one. There's a place for Mark Wood

:06:03. > :06:07.the Durham bowler who had to said at the Winter games after three ankle

:06:08. > :06:12.surgeries. He's back now, Jos Buttler and Chris Woakes will return

:06:13. > :06:15.after missing the first couple of games against Ireland because they

:06:16. > :06:19.are playing in the Indian Premier League. Serena Williams says Ilie

:06:20. > :06:25.Nastase's comets on her unborn child racist. There Romanian Federation

:06:26. > :06:27.cup captain has been provisionally suspended by the International

:06:28. > :06:31.tennis Federation since his abusive remarks about Williams and verbally

:06:32. > :06:37.abusing players including Johanna Konta. Williams said, it disappoints

:06:38. > :06:41.me to know that we live in a society where people like Ilie Nastase can

:06:42. > :06:46.make such racist comments to myself and my unborn child and sexist

:06:47. > :06:51.comments against my fellow players. Red Britain's ice hockey players on

:06:52. > :06:55.the second game in the World Championship game, beating Bolton

:06:56. > :07:01.last night where Liam Stewart, the son of Sir Rod Stewart scored his

:07:02. > :07:05.first international goal. Britain join Japan and Lithuania at the top

:07:06. > :07:10.of the table on six points. Great Britain hope to eventually make the

:07:11. > :07:14.top tier of the World Championships. The quarterfinals are almost

:07:15. > :07:17.underway at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, five-time

:07:18. > :07:23.champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is about to start his match with Ding Junhui

:07:24. > :07:27.of China. There he is. Just about to come out to see the crowd at the

:07:28. > :07:33.Crucible. Karen Wilson takes on John Higgins on the other table. Watch

:07:34. > :07:44.the action on BBC2- Cairo and Wilson. Stay with us until 11am if

:07:45. > :07:48.you can. Victoria. Thank you. We are expecting the Labour Party's shadow

:07:49. > :07:54.Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer to speak any day now. Labour is setting

:07:55. > :07:59.out its Brexit policy before the general election. He's just being

:08:00. > :08:03.introduced by Jenny Chapman, one of the parties spokespersons on Brexit.

:08:04. > :08:09.We're waiting for Sir Keir Starmer, who is due to appear on stage in the

:08:10. > :08:13.next minute or so and will be on the BBC News Channel at 11:30am and is

:08:14. > :08:23.questions about the Labour Party's Brexit policy. Send in your

:08:24. > :08:29.questions with our hashtag. Sir Elton John has cancelled concerts in

:08:30. > :08:33.America after suffering a potentially deadly bacterial

:08:34. > :08:37.infection. He contracted it during a tour of South America. Just before

:08:38. > :08:43.Christmas he spoke to us and talked about the fight against AIDS. In

:08:44. > :08:48.America because of the election you are going to worry about what will

:08:49. > :08:52.happen there. We can't passed judgment on it yet... With the

:08:53. > :08:56.President-elect? You don't know how much of the progress that has been

:08:57. > :09:01.made will be reversed so that is scary. We live in scary times. It's

:09:02. > :09:05.a dangerous thing about this disease because we have to be consistent in

:09:06. > :09:09.what we do going forward, people have to be tested, go on the

:09:10. > :09:13.medication and stay with it for it to be effective. If we stigmatise

:09:14. > :09:16.people and make it harder for them to get medicines and take away

:09:17. > :09:21.subsidies we will go backwards and have an alarming spike in new

:09:22. > :09:26.infections. And we have come so far. The end is in sight. If governments

:09:27. > :09:29.around the world take their foot off the accelerator and stop funding we

:09:30. > :09:32.will never beat the disease and it will balloon again and become

:09:33. > :09:45.another catastrophe. It already is and it will get worse like it was 20

:09:46. > :09:48.years ago. So we need government Dexter to keep their mandate about

:09:49. > :09:51.AIDS, keep their money coming for AIDS because we can cure this. We

:09:52. > :09:53.can solve this. You can't say this about any other disease at the

:09:54. > :09:55.moment. We can stop this disease from spreading. When will you speak

:09:56. > :10:00.to President Putin about his approach to gay rights in Russia? I

:10:01. > :10:04.don't know. As soon as we can get together in the same place at the

:10:05. > :10:12.same time. I'm hopeful it will happen but he's a busy man than I

:10:13. > :10:18.am! What will you say to him? Give us gets!

:10:19. > :10:25.LAUGHTER -- give us a kiss. What do we know

:10:26. > :10:29.about Elton 's condition? We know that on his way back from a tour in

:10:30. > :10:33.South America, specifically Chile, he was violently ill on the

:10:34. > :10:36.aeroplane. His medical team identified that he was ill and as

:10:37. > :10:42.soon as he landed in the UK he was taken to hospital, where he spent

:10:43. > :10:46.two days in intensive care. They described it as a potentially deadly

:10:47. > :10:50.bacterial infection. That is what we know so far. He is at home resting.

:10:51. > :10:56.He's over the worst of it. He's cancelled some tour dates, he'd be

:10:57. > :11:01.back on form in the summer. I've got tickets to take my boys to see him

:11:02. > :11:06.into Twickenham in June, will he be playing in the UK? June the 3rd?

:11:07. > :11:10.That's the date when he has said he will be back performing. He's had to

:11:11. > :11:15.cancel his million-dollar piano at the Coliseum in Las Vegas, his

:11:16. > :11:20.cancelled a cup of - a couple of tour dates in California as well.

:11:21. > :11:25.I'm so sorry that I will have to stop you there, thank you for

:11:26. > :11:29.talking to us, now we are going to hear the Labour Party's Brexit

:11:30. > :11:34.spokesman, Sir Keir Starmer, on the party 's policy on Brexit.

:11:35. > :11:42.Labour's approach will be based on our values. Let me set the Z because

:11:43. > :11:47.they are values of International is. Of being outward looking. Of a

:11:48. > :11:57.belief that we achieve more together than we do alone. Fundamental belief

:11:58. > :12:02.that internationally we should face challenges together with other

:12:03. > :12:08.countries, and take advantages and opportunities with other countries.

:12:09. > :12:14.Now as Jenny has said, we accept that things will have to change, our

:12:15. > :12:20.relationship with the EU is going to change. But we do not accept, we do

:12:21. > :12:25.not accept that Brexit has to mean whatever Theresa May says it means!

:12:26. > :12:31.We do not accept that there has to be a reckless Tory Brexit. And that

:12:32. > :12:39.is a fundamental issue in this election. A fundamental is you for

:12:40. > :12:42.everybody who will be voting. We don't believe that if you are a

:12:43. > :12:49.citizen of the world you are a citizen of nowhere. Of course we

:12:50. > :12:55.recognise and accept that immigration rules are going to have

:12:56. > :12:58.to change when we leave the EU. Let me say that again, we accept that

:12:59. > :13:05.immigration rules are going to have to change when we leave the EU. But

:13:06. > :13:10.we do not accept that immigration should be the only overarching

:13:11. > :13:14.priority, the only red line. Nor do we believe that leaving the EU means

:13:15. > :13:22.that we have to sever all of our ties with Europe. That Brexit means

:13:23. > :13:26.weakening workers' rights, environmental protection is all that

:13:27. > :13:34.it must entail slashing corporate taxes. We have a very different

:13:35. > :13:41.vision. A vision about how Brexit can work for Britain and the EU. And

:13:42. > :13:46.at its heart, at its heart, is a belief that we need to build a close

:13:47. > :13:51.collaborative future relationship with the EU. Changed relationship

:13:52. > :14:01.but a relationship and a future relationship. Not members but

:14:02. > :14:05.genuine partners going forward. Where jobs, the economy and

:14:06. > :14:12.retailing the benefits of the single market and Customs union are the

:14:13. > :14:15.priority. Where hard-fought workplace rights and environmental

:14:16. > :14:24.protections are protected. Where we are truly an open outward looking

:14:25. > :14:28.country. And where EU Nationals living here are guaranteed their

:14:29. > :14:35.rights and can live in certainty that Brexit will not affect them.

:14:36. > :14:39.Brexit that brings the country together, that radically devolve

:14:40. > :14:45.power and supports all regions and of the UK, and that is the approach

:14:46. > :14:50.to Brexit that I want to set up briefly this morning. But let me

:14:51. > :14:54.deal with this head on and summarise the key differences. The Prime

:14:55. > :14:59.Minister has adopted an ideological leap approached view of Brexit and

:15:00. > :15:02.where has it led her? It has let her down the slippery slope, nothing to

:15:03. > :15:07.do with the single market -- ideological leap approached view.

:15:08. > :15:12.Nothing to do with the customs union, the European court or any

:15:13. > :15:16.court. Nothing to do with the very many agencies that do such fantastic

:15:17. > :15:22.collaborative work that is so important to all of us. Out of all

:15:23. > :15:24.of those, an approach that has led her to that place and what does that

:15:25. > :15:41.mean? Talking up no deal as if that's

:15:42. > :15:45.acceptable. Some people say well that's a clear approach, it's a

:15:46. > :15:52.rigid approach. It is removing options before we've started. And

:15:53. > :16:01.it's a reckless approach. What Labour will do is to scrap the

:16:02. > :16:06.Brexit White Paper and draw up new negotiating objectives. We will on

:16:07. > :16:09.day one unilaterally grn tee the rights of EU citizens in this

:16:10. > :16:19.country. And work... APPLAUSE

:16:20. > :16:24.And of course, fight for the rights of UK citizens across Europe.

:16:25. > :16:30.We will scrap the Great Repeal Bill and replace it with what it should

:16:31. > :16:36.be, an EU rights and protections Bill. We will give a proper role to

:16:37. > :16:41.Parliament in the process, not sideline it and treat all challenge

:16:42. > :16:49.as frustration or decent. And we will, of course, rebuild Britain by

:16:50. > :16:55.investing in people in a future that is fairer for all.

:16:56. > :17:00.So let me deal first with the White Paper and the negotiating

:17:01. > :17:06.priorities. Labour's White Paper will have a strong emphasis on

:17:07. > :17:11.retaung the benefits of the single market and customs union vital as

:17:12. > :17:15.they are to protecting our economy. Our paper will make crystal clear

:17:16. > :17:21.the jobs and the economy are Labour's priority throughout. And

:17:22. > :17:31.that means that we will seek continued tariff-free access between

:17:32. > :17:38.the UK and the EU, that we will seek no new non tariff customs burdens,

:17:39. > :17:42.that we will ensure align, regulatory alignment and that we

:17:43. > :17:49.will remain competitive in services as well as goods. Retaining the all

:17:50. > :17:53.important threshold of workplace rights so that there is no race to

:17:54. > :18:00.the bottom as we go forward. Now I have been all over the country

:18:01. > :18:02.talking to businesses, large and small, communities large and small,

:18:03. > :18:08.trade unionists and all of them saying with one voice on the need

:18:09. > :18:12.for these benefits to be the central part of the negotiations. Now,

:18:13. > :18:17.whether this is best achieved through reformed membership of the

:18:18. > :18:20.single market and the customs union or via some bespoke trading

:18:21. > :18:27.arrangement is secondary to the outcold. What matters -- jouleth

:18:28. > :18:32.scrout come, what matters is we retain the benefits that really

:18:33. > :18:36.matter. Let me tell you, what cannot be negotiated because these

:18:37. > :18:41.negotiations are not going to be easy, what cannot be negotiated, we

:18:42. > :18:47.will replicate back here in the UK. And let me give you an example.

:18:48. > :18:51.Regulatory alignment, we will fight hard, fight hard for our businesses,

:18:52. > :18:54.and the people who work in those businesses to ensure that there are

:18:55. > :18:58.no empedestrianments going forwardment we want businesses to

:18:59. > :19:05.succeed in the future in the way they have succeeded in the past. And

:19:06. > :19:08.if we can't get the regulatory alignment we need through

:19:09. > :19:12.negotiations in Brussels, we will achieve it back at home by primary

:19:13. > :19:16.legislation. If there is any issue on workplace rights in the

:19:17. > :19:19.negotiation, we will achieve it back home through primary legislation,

:19:20. > :19:23.what matters is when the end arrangement, the end pack ableg is

:19:24. > :19:27.met, we've met the commitment of the same benefits of the single market

:19:28. > :19:36.and the customs union so important are they. So that means we need to

:19:37. > :19:40.focus. Not on hypothetical trade deals with other countries, but on

:19:41. > :19:47.strong trading arrangements with the EU. After all, the EU accounts for

:19:48. > :19:52.44% of our exports. By far and away the most important trading partner.

:19:53. > :19:56.It is extraordinary that the first act of the Prime Minister was to

:19:57. > :19:58.give up on the single market and the customs union, even before

:19:59. > :20:05.negotiations had begun and it was received very badly by our EU

:20:06. > :20:09.partners as a message as to how far outside any collaborative future

:20:10. > :20:14.relationship she wanted to be. But not only that, she has spoken up,

:20:15. > :20:21.talked up the chances of no deal being reached. She said repeatedly

:20:22. > :20:27.no deal is better than a bad deal. No deal is better than a bad deal?

:20:28. > :20:34.Labour are very clear that no deal is the worst possible deal. It would

:20:35. > :20:39.cause huge damage to our businesses, to our trade, the examples just make

:20:40. > :20:49.that absolutely clear the tariffs, if no deal of 30% to 40% on dairy

:20:50. > :20:54.and meat products. 10% on cars. And a loss of passporting rights for the

:20:55. > :20:58.financial services. I was at Vauxhall yesterday and the anxiety

:20:59. > :21:01.about that outcome is etched on the face of everybody who works there

:21:02. > :21:05.and everybody who works in so many of our businesses across the

:21:06. > :21:12.country. No wonder the CB iflt have called it a recipe for chaos. A

:21:13. > :21:18.Labour approach will be clear and to end this reckless approach and we

:21:19. > :21:21.will be clear that we need to negotiate strong transitional

:21:22. > :21:28.arrangements as we leave the EU, and ensure there is no cliff edge for

:21:29. > :21:33.our economy. So reject no deal as a viable option and introduce and

:21:34. > :21:40.fight for transitional arrangements from the start. But we will also

:21:41. > :21:48.approach the task differently. Theresa May wants to close down

:21:49. > :21:54.scrutiny and challenge. In truth, that lies partly behind her decision

:21:55. > :21:59.to call an election. The idea that she should be challenged or

:22:00. > :22:05.questioned in Parliament in a meaningful way is something she

:22:06. > :22:10.cannot have, she will not have. She wants to knock that out of the way

:22:11. > :22:13.and everybody knows that strong leaders and strong decisions welcome

:22:14. > :22:17.scrutiny and accountability and welcome challenge, that's how the

:22:18. > :22:24.right decisions are arrived at. And these decisions are so important. We

:22:25. > :22:31.cannot duck this issue. So Labour will take a different approach. We

:22:32. > :22:36.will work with Parliament, not against Parliament, we will

:22:37. > :22:40.legislate to ensure there is a meaningful vote at the end of the

:22:41. > :22:46.exercise. Something the Prime Minister refused to do and of

:22:47. > :22:49.course, we will insist on putting place regular reporting back through

:22:50. > :22:55.the process, so we can get the views of part, so that we can be

:22:56. > :22:58.challenged and so we can ensure that we are on the right track and

:22:59. > :23:07.Parliament has played its role throughout the process. Process.

:23:08. > :23:10.STUDIO: Sir Keir Starmer. Norman Smith has been listening. He says

:23:11. > :23:15.jobs are the priority. He says, but we accept that I will gration rules

:23:16. > :23:21.are going to have to change when we leave? He did, Vic, but the problem

:23:22. > :23:25.is we don't quite know how the rules are going to chake and that seems to

:23:26. > :23:28.me the weakness in what we're hearing. We heard Sir Keir Starmer

:23:29. > :23:33.setting ot the differences with Mrs May's approach to Brexit. He said

:23:34. > :23:37.she had a rigid ideological approach and ruled out options such as

:23:38. > :23:40.staying in the single market, and being part of the customs union,

:23:41. > :23:43.keeping a role for the European Court of Justice, keeping certain

:23:44. > :23:46.key EU agencies in brib, all those have been wiped off the table. That

:23:47. > :23:52.was a ridge I had, inflexible approve, but when you move on to the

:23:53. > :23:56.Labour approach, we got some clarity. Sir Keir Starmer wants to

:23:57. > :24:01.rule out the idea of just accepting no dealment he said that's the worst

:24:02. > :24:06.possible option. He also guaranteed that EU nationals would get their

:24:07. > :24:10.rights to stay in Britain from day one of a Labour Government, but in

:24:11. > :24:16.terms of the sort of deal that Labour would negotiate, we're

:24:17. > :24:20.slightly scrabbling around. He wanted to maintain the benefits of

:24:21. > :24:25.the customs union. But we don't really know what that means and we

:24:26. > :24:29.don't know what it means in terms of immigration. Labour will say this is

:24:30. > :24:32.because we're entering negotiation, it is a fluid situation, it will be

:24:33. > :24:37.more nuanced, but the difficulty is we are in the heat and Battle of An

:24:38. > :24:41.election campaign and in that sort of cal pain to cut through you need

:24:42. > :24:45.simple, clear, easy to understand messages and the daiker for Labour

:24:46. > :24:48.is this rather more nuanced message fails to resonate with voters.

:24:49. > :24:56.Thank you very much, Norman. And just after 11.30am

:24:57. > :24:59.on the BBC News Channel - Labour's Brexit Secretary,

:25:00. > :25:01.Sir Keir Starmer will be answering questions

:25:02. > :25:05.on the party's brexit strategy - you can start by sending your

:25:06. > :25:11.question in now by text. They've been called a national

:25:12. > :25:14.disgrace and new figures show a record number of almost

:25:15. > :25:17.1.2 million emergency supplies were handed out at food

:25:18. > :25:19.banks in the past year. One of the biggest food bank

:25:20. > :25:21.providers says areas where the new Universal Credit

:25:22. > :25:24.benefit has been introduced has seen double the rise of use of food

:25:25. > :25:31.banks than other areas. Universal Credit is a new benefit

:25:32. > :25:35.which replaces six other benefits, including Income Support

:25:36. > :25:38.and housing benefit - there's a six week waiting

:25:39. > :25:41.period for the first payment. Our reporter Ashley John Baptiste

:25:42. > :25:44.has been to visit one food bank Five years ago, it seemed nobody

:25:45. > :25:52.talked about food banks, but now an estimated half a million

:25:53. > :25:57.people use them every year. The Trussell Trust is the largest

:25:58. > :26:03.network of food banks across the UK. They have 425 member food

:26:04. > :26:06.banks like this one. In the last seven years,

:26:07. > :26:23.we've seen a dramatic rise in people The first year, we had

:26:24. > :26:28.about 1,000 beneficiaries. This past year, it's

:26:29. > :26:30.well over 6,000 men, women and children who've

:26:31. > :26:32.received our food parcels. I started using a food bank

:26:33. > :26:34.because my other half got And we were paying full rent

:26:35. > :26:38.and it took some time for the benefits to come through,

:26:39. > :26:41.so we had to come here because we also had bills to pay

:26:42. > :26:44.and it's only after you've paid for everything that you don't

:26:45. > :26:47.have enough for food. So I always make sure my son

:26:48. > :26:50.is fed, but sometimes I survive on cups of coffee,

:26:51. > :26:56.sometimes for up to four days, People are really struggling

:26:57. > :27:00.to make ends meet. The benefits system is causing

:27:01. > :27:04.a massive problem from what we're hearing from clients,

:27:05. > :27:08.universal credit in particular. Most people have to wait at least

:27:09. > :27:11.six weeks for their first Many have to wait six, eight,

:27:12. > :27:15.sometimes even 12 weeks for the first payment

:27:16. > :27:16.to come through. The Trussell Trust claims in the 28

:27:17. > :27:22.areas where it operates where Universal Credit has been

:27:23. > :27:24.rolled out, they've seen a 16% increase in food bank referrals

:27:25. > :27:27.versus the national average It's hard, actually,

:27:28. > :27:33.it's hard for me and my volunteers. I mean, I won't lie,

:27:34. > :27:36.sometimes I go home and I can't stop I had a woman referred

:27:37. > :27:39.to us not that long ago There was a domestic violence

:27:40. > :27:44.incident and she was forced to leave the family home,

:27:45. > :27:47.but she was rehoused in an empty flat and wasn't able to access any

:27:48. > :27:50.of her previously owned furniture I see people every single

:27:51. > :28:01.week in my food bank. I don't want to tell my family

:28:02. > :28:04.I come here, I can't. I would feel so bad having

:28:05. > :28:06.to ask them for help. It's easier to get

:28:07. > :28:09.a voucher and come here. So hopefully, this is only

:28:10. > :28:16.going to be a short-term solution. A separate report out today says up

:28:17. > :28:19.to three million children risk going hungry during the school

:28:20. > :28:21.holidays with some existing pretty A group of MPs says the govt needs

:28:22. > :28:33.to do more to feed hungry children Tracey Culham ended up having

:28:34. > :28:48.to go to a food bank after it took more than six weeks

:28:49. > :28:52.to receive payments on the two separate occasions she's had

:28:53. > :28:57.to apply for Universal Credit. Lee Forrest works for

:28:58. > :28:59.a housing association in the north east of England and has

:29:00. > :29:01.seen increasing problems for its tenants caused

:29:02. > :29:03.by Universal Credit, Alison Inglis-Jones

:29:04. > :29:19.is a trustee and volunteer Tracy, you had to apply for

:29:20. > :29:26.universal credit after you lost your job last year at Greggs were you had

:29:27. > :29:31.worked for seven years, why did you end up having financial problems

:29:32. > :29:35.after you had applied for universal credit? Could you repeat that

:29:36. > :29:40.please? Why did you end up having financial problems when you had

:29:41. > :29:53.applied for universal credit? When I first applied for universal credit

:29:54. > :29:58.was in August last year, I had applied and they had told us that I

:29:59. > :30:03.would have to wait, the pavement that I got was not until November

:30:04. > :30:11.because I had said that the wages that Greggs had give us was to live

:30:12. > :30:16.on for all that went in my bank account was 18p. Really. So having

:30:17. > :30:23.to wait until you got the first payment of Universal Credit, what

:30:24. > :30:34.effect did it have on you? I am still in debt up to my eyes. I owe

:30:35. > :30:39.all my friends and family money. I can't afford... I have had to go,

:30:40. > :30:44.the council had to sort us out a food bank parcel last year and

:30:45. > :30:58.they've had to do it again this year. I went, my first payment last

:30:59. > :31:03.was November but I had gotten a temporary job so I was working right

:31:04. > :31:07.until January. And then when I went back in to tell them that the

:31:08. > :31:12.temporary job had finished in January, they said I wasn't going to

:31:13. > :31:17.get a payment from them until April 17 and that was like just a couple

:31:18. > :31:22.of weeks ago. Understood. I can see you are upset when you talk about

:31:23. > :31:27.this, Tracy. Can you put into words what it is like for you being forced

:31:28. > :31:40.to go to a food bank? It is degrading. Especially when you have

:31:41. > :31:48.worked all your life, and when people have got to come and tell you

:31:49. > :31:53.that they can sort you out a parcel, and they take, I'm sorry about this,

:31:54. > :31:58.you know what it is, I hate talking about this because I think it is the

:31:59. > :32:03.most degrading thing going. And I need to let the nation know what it

:32:04. > :32:10.is like. There is no need to apologise at all, Tracey, there

:32:11. > :32:16.really isn't. We are very, very grateful that you have come on our

:32:17. > :32:20.programme to talk about something that is... They are frightened to

:32:21. > :32:27.tell us in the red office how much rent arrears I am in. -- in the rent

:32:28. > :32:34.office. And note that I am finally getting my payment sorted, I got my

:32:35. > :32:41.full rent on the 17th, sorting it out, I've got to pay now every month

:32:42. > :32:47.?20 a month out of my money because I've had to wait for it coming

:32:48. > :32:53.through. Tracey, I am going to bring in Allison, who is in the studio,

:32:54. > :32:58.Alison Inglis- Jones from the trust of trust, they have released figures

:32:59. > :33:04.today about the number of emergency supplies. First your response to

:33:05. > :33:10.what Tracey has said this morning? I am really sorry, it is not an

:33:11. > :33:15.unusual story. I volunteer with Hammersmith and Fulham food bank,

:33:16. > :33:19.you showed them a while ago, we've seen people coming in in very

:33:20. > :33:25.fragile emotional and mental states because they are in debt. And this

:33:26. > :33:31.six week plus waiting gap is creating huge problems for people

:33:32. > :33:35.across the country. Why is it six weeks? We don't know but we are

:33:36. > :33:39.having conversations with the Department for Work and Pensions to

:33:40. > :33:43.see if we can narrow that gap. It is what we'd like to advise because we

:33:44. > :33:47.have seen from Tracey's story that this isn't working for a whole range

:33:48. > :33:52.of people. What can we do to narrow that gap. It is a question we would

:33:53. > :33:56.have liked to ask a representative of the Department for Work and

:33:57. > :34:00.Pensions. Requested an interview. They gave a statement saying that

:34:01. > :34:05.the reasons for using a food bank complex so it is misleading to link

:34:06. > :34:09.them to one single issue. They say the roll out of Universal Credit is

:34:10. > :34:14.helping people stay in jobs, employment is the best route out of

:34:15. > :34:17.poverty and then record numbers of people in work, Universal Credit

:34:18. > :34:24.people are moving into work fast and staying in work longer than under

:34:25. > :34:30.the old system. Let me bring in Lee. You are a debt adviser in the

:34:31. > :34:33.north-east of England. 25,000 homes, many of your tenants are on

:34:34. > :34:38.Universal Credit. What impact is that having on them. Huge impact. I

:34:39. > :34:44.can throw some light on why people have to wait six weeks for payment.

:34:45. > :34:49.James Casling, unlike housing benefit is a monthly benefit, so

:34:50. > :34:53.when you apply there is one month to wait until the money you have been

:34:54. > :34:57.entitled to do in this month is assessed and then you have to wait

:34:58. > :35:01.another month until you get your first payment. That delay is built

:35:02. > :35:09.into every single claim. Some people have to wait seven weeks for

:35:10. > :35:14.payment. But is immediately tapping into people's ability to pay the

:35:15. > :35:18.rent, to pay for food, to make sure there is enough energy on meters and

:35:19. > :35:25.that bills are paid and so forth, so it's having a huge impact. Tracey's

:35:26. > :35:29.story is typical of many of our clients. If you were the Work and

:35:30. > :35:34.Pensions Secretary Lee could you sort this and make it a shorter time

:35:35. > :35:39.until the first payment came in? I can see no reason why it needs to be

:35:40. > :35:47.paid in arrears. I don't know why somebody can't apply for Universal

:35:48. > :35:49.Credit and then get an advance on their first payment, perhaps that

:35:50. > :35:58.can be paid back when you move into work. It's an administrative

:35:59. > :36:01.necessity, I think, part of the Universal Credit system, which

:36:02. > :36:08.presumably could be fixed to make it easier for people. Allison, is that

:36:09. > :36:13.logic, to you, about the way that it is run at the moment, that you don't

:36:14. > :36:17.get it in advance, you get a monthly after you have claimed? I can see

:36:18. > :36:22.why they may do that but the problem is that it is causing people, the

:36:23. > :36:26.impact, not just the immediate impact on people, the fragility of

:36:27. > :36:31.people's states. It will tip into other things, pressure on the NHS,

:36:32. > :36:36.the pressure on other services, it will only increase. As people have

:36:37. > :36:43.to wait for this period of time. We've seen Tracy today. It's not

:36:44. > :36:48.acceptable., IS IT A GOOD IDEA FROM LEE THAT YOU GET THE FIRST PAYMENT

:36:49. > :36:52.IN ADVANCE AND ONCE YOU GET WORK, WHICH IS WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO,

:36:53. > :36:58.YOU GOT TEMPORARY WORK AT CHRISTMAS, YOU PAY IT BACK THEN FROM YOUR

:36:59. > :37:07.WAGES. THAT IS WHAT I HAD SAID. I DID A DOCUMENTARY AND I SAID, they

:37:08. > :37:12.give you this money but then they take it away from you every month.

:37:13. > :37:20.If you get a job, then pay it back then. OK. Alison, regarding the DWP

:37:21. > :37:24.statement, Universal Credit people, this is their phrase, they are

:37:25. > :37:31.moving into work fast, staying in work longer than under the old

:37:32. > :37:35.system. Is that true? There is no doubt that people coming to food

:37:36. > :37:40.banks, I would say 98% of the people I see want to get back to work and

:37:41. > :37:46.they are. The problem is that they have run into debt while waiting for

:37:47. > :37:49.that. And that's the problem. We are talking to the DWP, the Secretary of

:37:50. > :37:55.State has opened his doors, the more we can address this together, the

:37:56. > :37:58.better. Tracey, there are some lovely messages from people who have

:37:59. > :38:04.been watching you run the country. I'm going to read a couple to you,

:38:05. > :38:08.if I may. Riley says, you have worked all your life, and it is

:38:09. > :38:14.degrading for you to go to a food bank and it is brave that you are

:38:15. > :38:17.talking about this. This tweet from Chris says, I hope every

:38:18. > :38:21.Conservative MP will be made to watch this and answer the questions

:38:22. > :38:26.raised today because this is shameful treatment of our people.

:38:27. > :38:31.Again, Angela says, Tracey has worked all her life and is getting

:38:32. > :38:34.no help. Rodney says, I don't believe food banks should be needed

:38:35. > :38:38.but I understand why they are. It makes me mad when you have people

:38:39. > :38:42.that don't need them who abuse them. A couple I know, this is not about

:38:43. > :39:13.you, Tracey, a couple that I know don't

:39:14. > :39:16.have kids, both smoke, go out three times a week and walk past with

:39:17. > :39:18.packs of beers for home but yet use food banks. Seuk-hyun Baek everyone

:39:19. > :39:21.who comes to trust will trust food bank has to be referred by social

:39:22. > :39:23.services, a vicar or a school governor. We're not standing in

:39:24. > :39:26.judgment in any way, someone else has made that judgment and they come

:39:27. > :39:28.with a voucher and we feed them. We trust the 40,000 plus front line

:39:29. > :39:30.care professionals who are referring, they have made that

:39:31. > :39:33.judgment, people are coming in and we feed them. OK. I'm going to read

:39:34. > :39:36.you this DWP statement. The reasons for the use of food banks are

:39:37. > :39:38.complex, they cannot be linked to one single issue. The best way out

:39:39. > :39:41.of poverty is employment, people are moving into work faster and staying

:39:42. > :39:43.there longer than under the old system. Universal Credit is designed

:39:44. > :39:47.to mirror the world of work and given full control over their own

:39:48. > :39:50.finances, the majority of claimants are confident and managing money and

:39:51. > :39:55.we work with local authorities to support those in need extra help,

:39:56. > :39:59.but didn't support, benefit advances and direct payments to landlords are

:40:00. > :40:04.available to those who need them. Lee, do you think that people are

:40:05. > :40:10.aware of that? The sort of help available to them? Direct payments

:40:11. > :40:14.to landlords, budgeting support, benefit advances? What should happen

:40:15. > :40:20.when Cindy makes a claim for Universal Credit they should be able

:40:21. > :40:24.to be made aware of any -- they should make Vidi WP aware of any

:40:25. > :40:31.health problems that make it difficult for them to pay rent

:40:32. > :40:35.themselves. -- they should make the DWP aware of these. I don't know if

:40:36. > :40:39.this is happening. As much as it should be. That is why people are

:40:40. > :40:46.getting into rent arrears early in the process. And advance payments

:40:47. > :40:51.are discretionary. And also like Tracey said, people know that they

:40:52. > :40:56.have to pay them back, so often people are relying on friends and

:40:57. > :40:59.family and ultimately food banks to see them through the first six weeks

:41:00. > :41:06.before payment because they don't want to be in further debt when they

:41:07. > :41:12.get subsequent Universal Credit awards. Understood. Thank you, legal

:41:13. > :41:16.Mack, who works for a Housing Association in the north-east of

:41:17. > :41:22.England, Tracey, thank you for coming on the programme. Tracey went

:41:23. > :41:27.to a food bank after it took more than six weeks that it took to

:41:28. > :41:31.receive Universal Credit, and two separate occasions when she has

:41:32. > :41:33.applied for it after losing her job last year, and Alison, from the

:41:34. > :41:40.tussle trust, thank you. The words of Chris Bonney,

:41:41. > :41:45.a college lecturer and part time DJ who suffered a life changing acid

:41:46. > :41:49.attack a year ago. The 30-year-old has no idea

:41:50. > :41:52.who was responsible for it or why. The acid splashed across his face,

:41:53. > :41:55.arms, chest and even his legs leaving him deaf for three months,

:41:56. > :41:57.temporarily blind in one eye and with permanent scarring

:41:58. > :42:00.to much of his skin. But he says the mental scars have

:42:01. > :42:05.been the hardest to recover from. Police figures show acid attacks

:42:06. > :42:10.are on the rise in the UK and in his first ever interview,

:42:11. > :42:13.Chris Bonney tells this programme of his worries that corrosive

:42:14. > :42:16.liquids are now easier to get hold Some of the images we show

:42:17. > :42:20.during this interview are upsetting and you may not want young children

:42:21. > :42:24.to see them. Chris started by telling us what

:42:25. > :42:28.happened on the night of the attack. On the 28th February last year,

:42:29. > :42:31.it was about 10.30 in the evening. I was just retiring to go

:42:32. > :42:33.to bed for the night, Looking through the glass, it looked

:42:34. > :42:39.like the shadow of my neighbour. It's not a troublesome

:42:40. > :42:43.neighbourhood. I just opened the door to find two

:42:44. > :42:46.gentlemen stood there. And he then apologised and said

:42:47. > :42:55."I'm ever so sorry", and then threw acid in my face

:42:56. > :42:57.and over the left-hand And the impact of the solution

:42:58. > :43:26.on you, was it immediately It was cold, the first

:43:27. > :43:34.impact to my face. When that happened, I closed my left

:43:35. > :43:43.eye and wiped it with my right hand. And as I did it, I rotated my body

:43:44. > :43:46.to a certain extent. And that was when the second hit

:43:47. > :43:50.from the bottle hit my left arm, The only way I can really describe

:43:51. > :43:55.how it felt was being covered It was a sensation that,

:43:56. > :44:07.that pain did not subside for hours It was excruciating pain, and it

:44:08. > :44:15.destroyed everything it touched. It melted the paint off my front

:44:16. > :44:18.door, burned holes in the carpet, took the paint off walls,

:44:19. > :44:20.burned through radiators, destroyed my sofa, my curtains,

:44:21. > :44:22.everything it touched. We're going to show our audience

:44:23. > :44:31.images of your injuries which you've kindly given to us so that people

:44:32. > :44:34.can see the exact nature Some people may find these

:44:35. > :44:39.photographs distressing, but I think you do feel it's

:44:40. > :44:42.important to show the effects of Can you describe the kind

:44:43. > :44:56.of injuries you sustained? So, the injuries that were sustained

:44:57. > :44:58.were chemical burns. It went through the various

:44:59. > :45:01.layers of skin and caused It made my skin very

:45:02. > :45:10.susceptible to infections. In total, it was around nine

:45:11. > :45:13.different infections I had in the nine months that it took

:45:14. > :45:16.before I was realistically The damage that this sort

:45:17. > :45:23.of substance causes to your skin It's unbearable, really,

:45:24. > :45:32.for me to even look at now. This attack happened 14 months ago,

:45:33. > :45:35.and I still look at those photos and it brings

:45:36. > :45:49.back horrendous memories. We can see on the left side of hur

:45:50. > :45:53.face, beneath your glasses a little bit of red marking and we can see on

:45:54. > :45:58.your left arm, presumably those are the after effects? Yeah, so that's

:45:59. > :46:05.the damage that's left on my left arm still. The scarring has

:46:06. > :46:11.eventually, you know, it's fully healed over now. . In the cease of

:46:12. > :46:18.the arm here where it's a moving part, that took up until November of

:46:19. > :46:25.last year before I was fully out of bandages. I've still scars on my

:46:26. > :46:29.article from here. My left eye is still a bit problematic because my

:46:30. > :46:35.eye lid is fused to my eyebrow. I can't fully close my eye lid which

:46:36. > :46:40.causes me some vision issues. Right. That's why I have to wear glasses. I

:46:41. > :46:44.understand. I wonder if you can explain more about how the injuries

:46:45. > :46:52.affect your daily life now? You have talked about the vision in your left

:46:53. > :46:58.eye. How else? Day-to-day, if I'm honest, it's more a psychological

:46:59. > :47:02.thing. I deem that people look at me and they are not seeing me as such,

:47:03. > :47:07.they are just sort of seeing scars and thinking what on earth happened

:47:08. > :47:10.there? That's quite hard for me to process on a daily sort of

:47:11. > :47:15.occurrence. As far as physical issues go, the only one that I

:47:16. > :47:25.really have is with the pain in the joint of this elbow from constantly

:47:26. > :47:29.moving it etcetera because where the scars has taled healed the skin is

:47:30. > :47:34.tight. When I stretch my arm out, it's pulling the skin and that's

:47:35. > :47:37.relatively uncomfortable. The mental scarring, you said psychologically

:47:38. > :47:43.on a day-to-day basis, it is an issue, talk us through the mental

:47:44. > :47:49.side of things? If we go back to last year really and work forwards,

:47:50. > :47:54.initially when it first happened, I was petrified of the dark. I

:47:55. > :47:58.couldn't sleep without a light on. I would, you know, I would cry myself

:47:59. > :48:03.to sleep most nights because I could not process what had happened to me

:48:04. > :48:09.and why it had happened to me. And from then onwards there was elements

:48:10. > :48:12.of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety and I had to

:48:13. > :48:16.seek counselling and psychological help for this. The team at Salisbury

:48:17. > :48:22.Hospital were outstanding and they worked with me, you know, tirelessly

:48:23. > :48:28.to really help me through this. I still suffer with some elements of

:48:29. > :48:31.anxiety, but I think that's something that I'm going to have to

:48:32. > :48:36.learn to deal with and overcome myself really. I'm lucky I have got

:48:37. > :48:41.a good support network and I have got friends who helped me through

:48:42. > :48:45.all this and psychologically, the element of fear is still there, not

:48:46. > :48:51.knowing why this actually happened to me. I have been to university.

:48:52. > :48:57.I've got a good job. I work hard. I've never been in trouble in my

:48:58. > :49:01.life. It was so random and for me to process what had happened, 14 months

:49:02. > :49:05.later, I still haven't got my head round that. Yeah. There are no

:49:06. > :49:10.answers because the police have not been able to find who is

:49:11. > :49:15.responsible. Absolutely not. They sat me down and they said, "We've

:49:16. > :49:18.interviewed a until of suspects. We have taken character references,

:49:19. > :49:24.witness statements about you as a person and there is no motive. There

:49:25. > :49:28.is no evidence. Qflt" There was nothing, no even so much as a

:49:29. > :49:32.fingerprint and that's difficult for me to deal with really. But there is

:49:33. > :49:37.somebody and they may even be watching now who knows who did this?

:49:38. > :49:44.Because there were two people there? Somebody out there knows. Yeah.

:49:45. > :49:49.Yeah, somebody knows somewhere. I don't know. One day it may come out

:49:50. > :49:56.and I may get some justice from all of this. But... But this is the

:49:57. > :50:01.first time you have spoken publicly Chris. What would you say to either

:50:02. > :50:04.the people who did this to you or to those around them who may have an

:50:05. > :50:14.inkling that they could have been responsible? What can you say? Hand

:50:15. > :50:20.yourself in. How do you sleep at night? Yeah, absolutely. I moon, I

:50:21. > :50:25.didn't deserve this to happen to me. The police said whoever it was were

:50:26. > :50:33.clearly paid to do a job and the jobs has been done. Who could ever

:50:34. > :50:39.hate me this much? It's just awful. Do you have any theory as to why

:50:40. > :50:42.these two people did this to you? There was a few theories, but

:50:43. > :50:47.unfortunately there is no evidence and it would be very unfair of me to

:50:48. > :50:50.say OK, I believe it was this person for this reason because if it

:50:51. > :50:58.wasn't, I would never forgive myself. Recently as you know there

:50:59. > :51:06.have been a series of similar kind of attacks, acid attacks, including

:51:07. > :51:09.one in a - an alleged attack in a nightclub recently. What do you

:51:10. > :51:14.think when you hear about those? I was made of that, I was made aware

:51:15. > :51:21.of this particular attack last week and for me personally, it shook me

:51:22. > :51:26.to my core. I am a teacher and then at the weekends I do a lot of DJing.

:51:27. > :51:31.It is my worst fear that someone would do that sort of attack in a

:51:32. > :51:37.nightclub and for it to happen that night. I reckon I had one or two

:51:38. > :51:40.hours sleep to think that it what happened to other people and for the

:51:41. > :51:47.number of people that it affected, it is truly awful. This substance,

:51:48. > :51:51.it is readily available. You can buy it from any good hardware shop. Any

:51:52. > :51:55.good supermarket and it does so much damage and there needs to be, how do

:51:56. > :52:01.you police it? How do you police a substance that you use for cleaning

:52:02. > :52:06.drains? There needs to be some form of education that, it is not

:52:07. > :52:11.acceptable to use it as a weapon. From a young age, sorry, I was going

:52:12. > :52:18.to say, from a young abling, we've, we educate the knife crime is how

:52:19. > :52:21.bad it is and gun crime, etcetera, but chelical attacks, substance

:52:22. > :52:26.attacks are becoming more and more frequent now, there needs to be

:52:27. > :52:34.something dub to stop it. Is this why it is important for you

:52:35. > :52:38.to speak out publicly finally? Absolutely the for the past 14

:52:39. > :52:45.months, I've focussed on my own recovery as such because I had my

:52:46. > :52:50.own battles, my own physical battles with the scarring on my face and my

:52:51. > :52:55.eye and I didn't want any more attention than I already had sort of

:52:56. > :52:59.locally in my local area, but now with these sort of attacks that are

:53:00. > :53:03.going on, they are more frequent and the fact that it has happened in an

:53:04. > :53:06.environment that I work now, it's time to sort of speak out and say

:53:07. > :53:13.what I've gone through and how I've recovered. It is one of those. I

:53:14. > :53:16.sort of sat back the other day and I looked at sort of myself in the

:53:17. > :53:21.mirror and I looked at my injuries and I looked at what happened to me

:53:22. > :53:25.and it thought, "Chris, you're a teacherment you lecture in health

:53:26. > :53:30.and safety, you teach the youth of today. If you can educate and help

:53:31. > :53:34.in any form, anyway that I can to do worthwhile happened to me, I have

:53:35. > :53:41.got to do it, in whatever way I can. I'm one small voice from a little

:53:42. > :53:44.seaside toub, you know, but it's, something has got to be done, where

:53:45. > :53:48.do you start drawing the line? You wind the clock back ten years when

:53:49. > :53:53.knife cile was on the rise in around the London areas and across the UK.

:53:54. > :53:56.And it's in the news, it's frequently in the news, people are

:53:57. > :54:00.educated on it now, and there is sort of, it's levelled out to a

:54:01. > :54:03.certain degree, but when you look at these acid attacks and the

:54:04. > :54:07.corrosiveness and the dabbling it does, it doesn't matter how big you

:54:08. > :54:19.are, if you get this substance on this scib, you're not fighting back.

:54:20. > :54:24.Let's talk to Teresa in Hatfield who got in touch with us this morning.

:54:25. > :54:30.Good morning. Good morning. What did you want to say? As I text in I

:54:31. > :54:35.wanted to say really a big thank you to all the volunteers throughout the

:54:36. > :54:42.country that do these for these people because we have a 24-year-old

:54:43. > :54:45.daughter that has border line personality disorder and

:54:46. > :54:49.post-traumatic stress and bipolar. It is a complex condition and she

:54:50. > :54:56.used to play football. She started when she was six years old and she

:54:57. > :55:02.wbt on to play very high level football as a goalkeeperment she

:55:03. > :55:09.plays in goal for local mental health team, and she rooptly came

:55:10. > :55:14.out of hot, she was in there for four-and-a-half months and she kale

:55:15. > :55:17.out this week and the first thing was to make sheer she was on the

:55:18. > :55:23.team sheet ready for a tournament next week. So it is a real objective

:55:24. > :55:25.for her to play and it helps herment thank you very much, Teresa. Thank

:55:26. > :55:35.you very much. We first spoke to him

:55:36. > :55:38.on the programme a month ago and now we've taken him training with QPRs'

:55:39. > :55:41.first team as part of the English Football League's

:55:42. > :55:43.community day of action. At 18, I was ready to die and had

:55:44. > :56:01.made many attempts on my own life. So James, how did it feel today,

:56:02. > :56:03.playing alongside three of the greatest footballers that

:56:04. > :56:05.have ever been seen To do that and have people

:56:06. > :56:16.like yourselves come and experience it and realise that there's more

:56:17. > :56:19.to a club than just the first team, Without football at my feet

:56:20. > :56:24.and the kit on my body... People would be having to come

:56:25. > :56:37.to a grave to see me instead. So how does being a

:56:38. > :56:38.professional footballer Footballers have lots of ups

:56:39. > :56:45.and downs, and it's difficult at times because you're judged

:56:46. > :57:01.as a product, so to speak. When I was really young we would

:57:02. > :57:04.play in derby games and if we didn't win on Saturday, I'd stay in my

:57:05. > :57:08.house until the following Saturday. I used to fear going out and being

:57:09. > :57:15.seen because I thought people would ridicule me and so on.

:57:16. > :57:20.I hope that people can see that even though it can be dark, there is

:57:21. > :57:25.always going to be a light. You've just got to fight through it. Three

:57:26. > :57:29.years later I'm still alive. We don't know what tomorrow brings.

:57:30. > :57:38.Just make sure you're there to see it. That's all I can say really.

:57:39. > :57:45.Sue says, "I have been very touched watching James today. I want to

:57:46. > :57:50.touch out and give him comfort and to say you can get through life

:57:51. > :57:56.after a deaf staying experience. I'm 66, but I was 19 when my father took

:57:57. > :58:02.his own life in 1970. I was an only child and in those days suicide was

:58:03. > :58:06.even more taboo than it is now. I had no one to talk to. I remember

:58:07. > :58:09.feeling so very lonely. I got some help, talking, but much further down

:58:10. > :58:12.the line, I would like to applaud James and all the other people who

:58:13. > :58:15.are now opening up about mental health."

:58:16. > :58:18.On the programme tomorrow, we take two viewers who don't think

:58:19. > :58:20.politicians make a difference to their lives to spend

:58:21. > :58:23.a day in parliament, meeting MPs and decision-makers.

:58:24. > :58:29.Thank you watching today. Have a good day.